Cinema Italiano: The Eight Mountains
02 hours 27 minutes
- Alessandro Borghi, Luca Marinelli
- Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groningen
- Cinema Italiano Festival, Coming Soon, Drama
- July 26, 2024
- Subtitled
Synopsis
Le Otto Montagne
Summer 1984, a secluded alpine village in the Aosta Valley. Holidaying with his mother and father, 11-year-old Pietro befriends Bruno, the local son of a stonemason, and the two spend an idyllic vacation together. But when Pietro’s well-meaning but impetuous dad suggests that Bruno return to Turin with them so that he can receive a proper education, he inadvertently drives a wedge between the boys.
In adulthood, their paths intertwine again: the estranged Pietro (Luca Marinelli) is drawn back to the valley – a place that Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) has never left – and as the two set about building a mountain cabin, they begin to bridge a crevasse of emotional distance and reconcile the wounds and regrets of the past.
Set against the pristine, spectacular panoramas of Northwest Italy and Nepal, THE EIGHT MOUNTAINS is a deeply affecting tale of connection – to others, to nature and to self.