It's a film like a mountain path, which climbs, meanders, and doesn't hesitate to take its time.
His path is sometimes dangerous, winding like a suspicious friendship, but we come out of it with a clean look, a purified soul.
Adapted from the novel by Italian Paolo Cognetti (2017 Foreign Medici Prize),
Les Huit Montagnes
, the seventh feature film by Flemish-Belgian director Felix Van Groeningen (
The Merditude of Things, Alabama Monroe, My Beautiful Boy
), received the jury at the last Cannes Film Festival (ex aequo with
Eo
, by Jerzy Skolimowski).
A Nepalese legend
Set in the Italian Alps, the film tells the story of an unfailing friendship between two kids who are completely opposed.
The story begins in the summer of 1984, when young Pietro's family rented a holiday home in the small deserted village of Grana, in the heart of Valle d'Aosta.
Formerly, this mountain hamlet housed nearly two hundred souls.
To encourage people to come and settle there, the villagers naively built a road... which allowed...
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