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The Eight Mountains

Le otto montagne

2022

Felix Van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch

Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Filippo Timi, Elena Lietti ...

7.4

5,418

Drama The Eight Mountains is the story of a friendship. Of children becoming men who try to erase the footprints of their fathers, but who, through the twists and turns they take, always end up returning home. Pietro is a boy from the city, Bruno is the last child of a forgotten mountain village. Over the years Bruno remains faithful to his mountain, while Pietro is the one who comes and goes. Their encounters introduce them to love and loss, ... [+]

	Author	Review
Australia	Stephen A Russell Time Out Australia	"Much like climbing a mountain, the two-and-a-half-hour runtime may occasionally feel arduous, but the emotional release is worth it once you reach the peak (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jessica Kiang Variety	"Stately and serene from a distance, but up close riven with the fissures and follies of a friendship that costs both men so much but gives them even more, the movie, too, is a mountain"	POS
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"An impressive cinematic experience (...) Time and again, the filmmakers succeed in capturing the majesty and melancholy of nature, and the glorious banality of the lives that pass through"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"A rich, gentle story about a lasting friendship (...) Not everything works. But the tone should have considerable appeal for older arthouse audiences"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A movie with air in its lungs and love in its heart. It is spacious and unhurried in its devotion to beauty and to what it means to be human (...) This film has mystery and passion (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Iana Murray The Playlist	"The performances are just as remarkable as the view (...) A sentimental ode to those singular friendships we make in our lives, the kind that can't be severed by any amount of distance, physical or temporal"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"Enduring male friendships and the legacy of childhood are examined in this swoon-worthy literary adaptation (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"Did nobody try to give these characters any emotional range or depth, any texture apart from the beards? The movie spends two and a half hours trying to bring them into focus and never does"	NEG
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"There's joy and melancholy and a lyrical connection to nature in 'Le otto montagne'. What's missing is conflict, plus a narrative drive that fully liberates the story from the page (...) The drama remains frustratingly literary"	NEU
United States	Ella Kemp IndieWire	"Van Groeningen's long-time cinematographer Ruben Impens has never done more breathtaking work: he captures the epic vastness of every mountain with dumbfounding clarity"	POS
United States	Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"Watching [this] vivid, sweeping film about male friendship is like reading a satisfying novel"	POS
United States	Jose Solís The Film Stage	"Van Groeningen and Vandermeersch's simplification of the country mouse/city mouse dynamic fails to add any depth to a story that's not as clever as it thinks"	NEG
United States	Richard Brody The New Yorker	"The story of a lifelong friendship between two men is pretty and vacant"	NEU
Canada	Graeme Guttmann Screen Rant	"A stirring & patient examination of friendship (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jeremy Mathai SlashFilm	"A gorgeous and soaring epic about friendship, aging, and regrets"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"This is the rare movie that understands how tied we are to the physical and psychological spaces of childhood, how our families and the traditions they raised us with can be both nurturing and limiting"	POS
United States	Damon Wise Deadline	"The most understated film of Felix van Groeningen's career so far (...) With terrific cinematography and two engaging leads, it's easy on the eye, but it's lackluster in its telling and pales"	NEU
United States	Greg Nussen Slant	"A lucid coming-of-age story about the power of friendship (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Yasmin Omar Empire	"It’s overlong, and overfamiliar, but remains a nuanced dual character study (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Richard Whittaker Austin Chronicle	"It's in [the] sequences of reconstruction, of quiet communication between Pietro and Bruno, of a depiction of adult male friendship, that 'Le otto montagne' is at its most endearing (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Fabien Lemercier Cineuropa	"A sweepingly romantic film of great visual scope which touches on the essential (...) A wonderful adaptation of Cognetti's novel"	POS

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