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  • 2018
  • ASAP Cinema Network
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2018
  • ASAP Cinema Network
  • 1 h 45 m
Mountain

Summary Many years ago, in a semi-abandoned village at the feet of a mountain, lives Agostino with his wife Nina and the son Giovanni. The mountain stands as a wall against the sun preventing it from reaching their land, now only rocks and scrubland. With an old wheelbarrow, Agostino goes to the market place of the town on the other side of the ...

Written By: Donatello Fumarola

  • 2018
  • ASAP Cinema Network
  • 1 h 45 m
  • 2018
  • ASAP Cinema Network
  • 1 h 45 m

Mountain

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Summary Many years ago, in a semi-abandoned village at the feet of a mountain, lives Agostino with his wife Nina and the son Giovanni. The mountain stands as a wall against the sun preventing it from reaching their land, now only rocks and scrubland. With an old wheelbarrow, Agostino goes to the market place of the town on the other side of the ...

Written By: Donatello Fumarola

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80
Mar 20, 2018
It shows the maverick filmmaker once again at the height of his expressive powers. Its stripped-down narrative and uncompromising repetitions will not be tolerable to everyone, but audiences willing to stick out the punishing but dazzling last half hour will walk away with a lot.
By Deborah Young FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 20, 2018
The film is limited by its central metaphor, but it is never less than absorbing or original.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 20, 2018
If you like your metaphors thuddingly literal (and literally thudding, with the whole final act unfolding to the grunting rhythm of a man bashing away at a cliff face with a mallet), the Iranian director’s “Monte” will prove a treat. The rest of us may find ourselves wondering, like the biblically unfortunate central character, just what we’ve done to deserve this. The film at least looks extraordinary.
By Jessica Kiang FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Citrullo International, Zivago Media, Cineric, Ciné-Sud Promotion, Rai Cinema, Ministero dei Beni e delle Attività Culturali e del Turismo (MiBACT), IDM Südtirol - Alto Adige Film Fund, Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Regione Lazio, KNM Films
Release Date Mar 21, 2018
Duration 1 h 45 m
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Website http://monte-movie.com/
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Awards

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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