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  • 2023
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2023
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 53 m
The Mountain

Summary Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes up in the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by what surrounds him, he camps out alone high in the mountains and leaves behind his everyday life. Up there he meets Léa, a chef of an alpine restaurant, while mysterious glows glitter in the deep mountain.

Directed By: Thomas Salvador

Written By: Naïla Guiguet, Thomas Salvador

  • 2023
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 53 m
  • 2023
  • Strand Releasing
  • 1 h 53 m

The Mountain

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary Pierre, a Parisian engineer, goes up in the Alps for his work. Irresistibly attracted by what surrounds him, he camps out alone high in the mountains and leaves behind his everyday life. Up there he meets Léa, a chef of an alpine restaurant, while mysterious glows glitter in the deep mountain.

Directed By: Thomas Salvador

Written By: Naïla Guiguet, Thomas Salvador

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
57
50% Positive
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
17% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
57
50% Positive
3 Reviews
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
17% Negative
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80
Aug 28, 2023
To reveal much at all about the film’s abrupt change of register around two-thirds of the way in would be unfair. Suffice to say that if The Mountain has been a very austere, mid-life-male variation on Into The Wild up to now, it soon feels like we are watching a Gaspar Noé movie, with a little dose of Miyazaki thrown into the mix.
By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 31, 2023
Salvador's movie wants to penetrate something elemental in the viewer; if you can give in to its vision in good faith, it might just do that for you.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 15, 2023
Although Pierre’s intentions remain debatable, the story becomes a subtle treatise on solitude, ecology and, it would seem, following your bliss.
By Gary Goldstein FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 31, 2023
For all of the moments of splendor and awe in The Mountain, I’d have preferred a less open-ended film.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 31, 2023
Some might see the final act as body horror. To the director, it’s a metaphysical sacrament — and all along, his camera has hinted that mankind must commit to the planet before it’s too late.
By Amy Nicholson FULL REVIEW
38
Aug 28, 2023
Thomas Salvador frustratingly never offers a concrete sense of what his character feels that he’s lost, and so we’re tasked with loading meaning onto the character’s journey of apparent self-reclamation.
By Greg Nussen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Christmas In July, Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma, Canal+, Ciné+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Fondation GAN pour le Cinéma, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Cinémage 15, Cinéventure 7, Indéfilms 9, Angoa-Agicoa, Cinémage 11 Développement, Cinéventure Développement 5, Indéfilms Initiative 9
Release Date Sep 1, 2023
Duration 1 h 53 m
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Haifa International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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