The Mountain

Name: The Mountain
Genre: Drama
Released: July 26, 2019
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Adam Daveline, Amy Stiller, Annemarie Lawless, Denis Lavant, Eleonore Hendricks

2019

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: July 26, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Adam Daveline, Amy Stiller, Annemarie Lawless, Denis Lavant, Eleonore Hendricks, Hannah Gross, Jeff Goldblum, Margot Klein, Tye Sheridan, Udo Kier

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 Gross)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 Gross) and lost in the burgeoning New Age movement of the west. … Expand

Director: Rick Alverson

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 106 min

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Carson Lund

Jul 25, 2019

For all its emotional restraint, Rick Alverson’s film builds to a point of remarkable pathos. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Sep 12, 2018

So much does not connect here and so much is designed to discomfit that there is unexpected resonance when Alverson lays aside the scabrousness and puts down oddball drollery to remind us that inside every lonely young man, there’s a shivering kid waiting to be picked up and brought in from the snow. Read full review

Guy Lodge

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. Read full review

Marjorie Baumgarten

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. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Jul 25, 2019

Once Alverson has ensured that his subtext has been absorbed, he seems uncertain about where to go next. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

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. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Aug 7, 2019

These scenes of raving nonsense might have seemed radical in, say, the 1970s. Now they’re just tiresome. Read full review

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JLuis_001

May 5, 2022

A somewhat bleak, lethargic and occasionally incomprehensible tale that doesn't allow for much room of interpretation, or at least that's the impression it gave me.

The story itself is quite crude. What I read before watching the film informed me that it is loosely inspired by WalterA somewhat bleak, lethargic and occasionally incomprehensible tale that doesn't allow for much room of interpretation, or at least that's the impression it gave me.

The story itself is quite crude. What I read before watching the film informed me that it is loosely inspired by Walter Jackson Freeman II, a doctor who travelled around the USs visiting various asylums where he performed lobotomies, mostly on women and gay people. Needless to say how troubling this was.

That character goes by the name of Wallace Fiennes in this film and is played by a glacial Jeff Goldblum, but the story is more focused on his assistant Andy who is played by Tye Sheridan who barely speaks throughout the entire ordeal.

The coldness of its delivery imposes a barrier that I believe was intentionally put in place by its director.
It feels as if the world of the story has been abandoned, and even though the events are set in the 1950s, the feeling that we're experiencing a time-bubble in which the people were completely frozen in that era is overwhelming.

Unfortunately that glacial approach also turns The Mountain into a film that is far from accessible, becoming cumbersome after a while due to its total inability to alter its pace and tone, so beyond its perspective of being a film that doesn't try to cater to the mainstream crowd, it also becomes a conflicting and polarizing proposal within the realms of arthouse cinema.… Expand

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