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  • 2019
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2019
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 46 m

Summary Set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy, an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum’s patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gro...

Directed By: Rick Alverson

Written By: Dustin Guy Defa, Colm O'Leary, Rick Alverson

  • 2019
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 46 m
  • 2019
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 46 m

The Mountain

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
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Summary Set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy, an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum’s patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gro...

Directed By: Rick Alverson

Written By: Dustin Guy Defa, Colm O'Leary, Rick Alverson

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
64
70% Positive
16 Reviews
22% Mixed
5 Reviews
9% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 23 Critic Reviews
64
70% Positive
16 Reviews
22% Mixed
5 Reviews
9% Negative
2 Reviews

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88
Jul 25, 2019
For all its emotional restraint, Rick Alverson’s film builds to a point of remarkable pathos.
By Carson Lund FULL REVIEW
80
Sep 12, 2018
Having dipped a toe into bigger-name casting with his previous feature “Entertainment,” Alverson experiments intriguingly with performance style here, submitting his otherwise rigorously controlled filmmaking to the whims of unpredictably idiosyncratic thesps like Lavant, Goldblum and Udo Kier. It’s a calculated clash that perhaps reflects the film’s own theme of agitated minds at odds with the stoic status quo.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
70
Jul 26, 2019
The actor has muted his usual um-ah-YES speech tics and other telltale Goldblumian gestures to a large degree, which works nicely against Sheridan’s revelatory performance. Their existential despair among the mental healthcare white-coat crowd plays and feeds off each other — it’s like discovering a "Waiting for Godot" production nestled in the middle of "Titicut Follies."
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
67
Jul 31, 2019
Summarizing is futile. The Mountain has productive veins of ore for those willing to mine it. But be aware that finding gems will require sweat equity.
By Marjorie Baumgarten FULL REVIEW
63
Jul 23, 2019
The Mountain is what it is, and any attempt to recapitulate its meaning in some other form (like — ahem — a movie review) is a fool’s errand. With that in mind, it is probably best to set this thought down, and leave it with you: The Mountain is not for everyone, but it is, most emphatically, something else.
By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 12, 2018
Ultimately, Alverson’s The Mountain is arthouse cinema at its frostiest.
By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW
25
Aug 7, 2019
These scenes of raving nonsense might have seemed radical in, say, the 1970s. Now they’re just tiresome.
By Mick LaSalle FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Vice Studios
Release Date Jul 26, 2019
Duration 1 h 46 m
Genres
Tagline a psychosurgical odyssey
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Awards

Venice Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Calgary Underground Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Las Palmas Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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