Le Otto Montagne (2022)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 147 minuten
Alternative titles: The Eight Mountains / De Acht Bergen
Country:
Italy / Belgium / France / United Kingdom
Directed by: Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch
Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Luca Marinelli and Filippo Timi
IMDb score:
7,7 (19.198)
Releasedate: 21 December 2022
Le Otto Montagne plot
Eleven-year-old Pietro comes from the city, his peer Bruno grows up in the mountains. The two become friends, but lose sight of each other over the years. Bruno stays close to his home all the while, Pietro travels the world in the meantime. However, they find each other again.
Actors and actresses
Pietro Guasti
Bruno Guglielmina
Giovanni Guasti
Francesca Guasti
Lara
Pietro (da piccolo)
Bruno (da piccolo)
Asmi
Luigi
Barbara
Reviews & comments
De filosoof
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- 2467 messages
- 1680 votes
According to the NRC, the film feels like a meditative mountain hike, but I just find it slow and boring. The film is about the lifelong friendship between Bruno and Pietro, in which the contrast between them is central: Bruno is rooted as a mountain dweller where he was born, knows what he wants, builds a family, etc., while Pietro, as a boy from the city, has the (post) modern nomad who is nowhere at home, travels all the time, does not know what he wants, moves from job to job, remains unmarried, etc. In Nepal, Pietro finds the metaphor that expresses the difference: Bruno climbs the highest mountain in the center where the highest happiness and tranquility is while Pietro restlessly travels the eight mountains around it; for Pietro, only friendship with Bruno is his firmness and roots. That may be an interesting premise, but the story has little to do with it in the 2 ½ hours that the film lasts, other than that Bruno is ultimately the loser in this (post) modern world because he cannot imagine any other or modern life when change is needed (while Pietro finally finds his place in the world in Nepal where the mountain people are strikingly similar to Bruno).
All in all, I was mostly bored in this film that is way too long for its meager substance. I hope the book was better.
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hvdriel
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- 397 messages
- 357 votes
What a relief to experience a film that leaves you space as a viewer, and does not take you by the hand.
At a leisurely pace, the film offers just enough information in images to be able to give meaning without intrusive music and dialogues that make everything explicit.
All details matter and refer to each other, so that the internal cohesion is solid.
No sticky oppositions - such as city to countryside, man to woman, father to son, etc. - but a nuanced exploration of friendship and of a dual father/son relationship.
And the temptation to unpack in eye-catching and phenomenal landscape images has been curtailed by the directors by using the 3:4 image format. They care about the content...
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mrklm
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- 11500 messages
- 9971 votes
During a holiday in a tiny Italian mountain village in 1984, 11-year-old Pietro [Lupo Barbiero] befriends Bruno [Cristiano Sassella], the only child still living in the village. Pietro and his parents [Elena Lietti, Filippo Timi] return several times, but then the boys lose sight of each other. Pietro [Luca Marinelli] is 31 when his father dies and then he decides to return to the mountain village to fulfill his father's dream: to build a house in this mountainous area. Bruno [Alessandro Borghi] still lives there. Pietro and Bruno decide to build the house together and solemnly promise to meet here every year. We then discover how the lives of the two men unfold and how that affects their friendship. Beautiful pictures with a lot of existential drivel about the meaning of friendship and the relationship with father. Pure navel gazing where I have to do my best not to fall asleep. As is often the case with a film that won prizes at Cannes: Van Groeningen and Vandermeersch shared the jury prize with Jerzy Skolimowski for his film EO.
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