The Eight Mountains
Presented by: Lucem House Community Cinema Plus+ St Helens.| 0 | ST HELENS: Community Cinema Plus (info) |
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| P | Friday 8th November, 2024 |
| N | Door time: 7:00pm Start time: 7:30pm |
| . | Film: 12A |
| C | Film |
Event information
After meeting as children over a series of summers in the Italian Alps, Pietro (Luca Marinelli) and Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) reunite as adults to build a mountainside cottage which becomes a site of both reflection and reconciliation.
This rich, beautiful and inexpressibly sad film is about the friendship between men who can’t talk about their feelings and about winning and losing at the great game of life. It is set in the breath taking and wonderfully photographed Italian Alpine valley of Aosta, which includes the slopes of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. But the “eight mountains” of the title refers to the eight highest peaks of Nepal: a mysterious symbol of worldly ambition and conquest.
A meditation on our capacity for love shapes this sweeping story of two friends, torn apart by family and life’s journeys but bound by something deeper
The title is a reference to the concept in Buddhism and ancient Indian cosmology that the world is composed of nine mountains and eight seas, specifically eight concentric circular mountain ranges separated from one another by eight seas, with the ninth and tallest mountain, Mount Meru, at the centre.
The film premiered in competition at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2022, where it won the Jury Prize tying with EO
