The Eight Mountains is a contemplative film that uses its runtime to settle in & take you through the 4 decades of Pietro's relationship with Bruno.
In Paolo Cognetti's Le otto montagne, the narrator ruminates, "If the point at which you immerse yourself in the river is the present...then the past is the water that has flowed past you." The Eight Mountains, an adaptation of Cognetti's novel written by the author alongside directors Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, follows Pietro from adolescence to adulthood and the film is like the river Cognetti writes about.
As Pietro and Bruno grow older, the camera feels as if it is subtly zooming out, framing Pietro and Bruno against vast, empty landscapes, mimicking the feeling of slow isolation that creeps up on you through the years. Pulled apart by circumstances beyond their control, it's nearly two decades before the pair reunite, and it's fitting that what brings them back together is the very thing that drove them apart.
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