Directed by the duo Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen, “The Eight Mountains” tells the powerful friendship of two men through the years. To discover at the cinema.
Cinema and escape are often one. With Les Huit Montagnes – Jury Prize at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in 2022 – a story of friendship between two men takes us to the heights of Aosta, a small Italian town perched in the mountains.
More than a drama, Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix Van Groeningen – director of Alabama Monroe and My Beautiful boy with Timothée Chalamet – are offering a veritable fresco.
The spectators meet the two heroes from their childhood to follow them until adulthood, when life has separated them. The film, of great delicacy, paints the portrait of these two men whom everything opposes: Pietro has always dreamed of leaving the mountains to become a writer, while Bruno is convinced that he is forced to follow the same path. than his father.
He chooses a destiny of solitude, to the point of cutting himself off from the world. Together, they will build an isolated house, to respect the will of Pietro’s father, who recently died. The Eight Mountains follows their quest for identity. They try, somehow, to find their place, while the shadows of their respective parents hover above their heads.
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The story sows confusion on this story of friendship, which sometimes takes on the appearance of forbidden and stifled amorous passion. The directors embrace their setting – the mountains are almost characters in their own right – and film, in a contemplative way, landscapes of stunning beauty.
A great film, The Eight Mountains seduces with its modesty, its intensity and the interpretation of its two main actors, Alessandro Borghi and Luca Marinelli.
The Eight Mountains, in cinemas on December 21, 2022.