We owe the Belgian Felix Van Groeningen one of the most tearful melodrama of the last ten years.
Alabama Monroe
made people cry in cottages around the world and collected awards all over the place (including the César for best foreign film in 2014).
You had to have a heart of stone to remain insensitive to the story of Didier, banjo player in a bluegrass band, and Élise, owner of a tattoo parlor, devastated by the cancer of their granddaughter.
For who took out their handkerchief at the time,
Les Huit Montagnes
has everything to surprise.
It is a film all in reserve, in hollow in spite of its reliefs.
Perhaps because Felix Van Groeningen is co-directing this time with his partner, Charlotte Vandermeersch.
Or maybe not.
In any case, it's a film without a subject or else which contains them all: life, love, death, family, friendship.
Above all, friendship.
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Based on a novel by Paolo Cognetti (published in France by Éditions Stock),
Les Huit Montagnes
depicts the encounter…
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