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  • 2020
  • Breaking Glass Pictures
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2020
  • Breaking Glass Pictures
  • 1 h 22 m
South Mountain

Summary Lila (Talia Balsam) is an artist who teaches at a community college and has built a modest rural paradise in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her husband Edgar (Scott Cohen). Soon after their teenaged daughters head off on summer adventures and her best friend Gigi (Andrus Nichols) begins chemotherapy, Edgar reveals he has started a ne...

Directed By: Hilary Brougher

Written By: Hilary Brougher

  • 2020
  • Breaking Glass Pictures
  • 1 h 22 m
  • 2020
  • Breaking Glass Pictures
  • 1 h 22 m

South Mountain

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Lila (Talia Balsam) is an artist who teaches at a community college and has built a modest rural paradise in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her husband Edgar (Scott Cohen). Soon after their teenaged daughters head off on summer adventures and her best friend Gigi (Andrus Nichols) begins chemotherapy, Edgar reveals he has started a ne...

Directed By: Hilary Brougher

Written By: Hilary Brougher

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90
May 5, 2020
The female-centric, lo-fi South Mountain is an excellent example of how little a budget matters when all the other puzzle pieces are in place. We need more cinema like this.
By Alex Saveliev FULL REVIEW
83
Mar 20, 2019
The movie ... sometimes sags into a lethargic pace and unwieldy tangents. ... But there’s no doubting the presence of a focused, intelligent vision guiding the small-scale material along.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
80
May 7, 2020
Balsam is marvelous throughout, precisely measured in portraying a state often teetering on abjection. Balsam’s Lila can turn from luminescent to hangdog in a flash. The character’s inner worlds register with exceptional vividness.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
80
May 6, 2020
South Mountain suggests that the moments that break us can also give us the space and excuse to grow and re-mold ourselves in new ways. There’s joy in those broken spaces.
By Alissa Wilkinson FULL REVIEW
80
Jun 19, 2019
As highlighted by its pitch-perfect finale, South Mountain demonstrates a realistically complex conception of stock ideas like “vengeance,” “moving on” and “healing,” and Ethan Mass’s cinematography echoes the material’s dualities in its delicate interplay of light and dark. Guiding the material from start to finish, however, is Balsam.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
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Mar 19, 2019
South Mountain transcends the limitations of some nakedly personal films to offer an affecting vision of frayed family ties.
By Stephen Farber FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Endcrawl.com
Release Date May 5, 2020
Duration 1 h 22 m
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Website http://www.southmountainfilm.com/
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Awards

New Hampshire Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
SXSW Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Mar del Plata Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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