The Eight Mountains 2022
7.7 / 10
The Eight Mountains
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Videos & Photos
All 2 Videos & 28 Photos
cast
Full Cast & Crew
... Pietro Guasti
... Bruno Guglielmina
... Pietro (as a child)
... Bruno (as a child)
... Lara
... Pietro (as a teenager)
User reviews
See All 2 Reviews18 May 2023 by CinemaSerf
"Pietro" (a scene stealing Lupo Barbiero) is a young boy taken by his mother from their home in Turin to a small mountain village where amongst the dozen or so residents he befriends "Bruno" (Cristiano Sassella). The latter boy lives with his cheese-making uncle, content to follow in his footsteps. After a few trips, the visiting family decide to offer "Bruno" an opportunity for education in the city, but when that comes a cropper the two boys become a bit estranged not just from each other, but "Pietro" from his dad (Filippo Timi) too. It is only when his father dies that "Pietro" (now Luca Marinelli) returns to the mountain where he is reintroduced to "Bruno" (Alessandro Borghi) and advised that his father has left him a ramshackle cottage high above the snow line. The two set about restoring this ruin and simultaneously rediscover their friendship. What now ensues is a throughly engaging story of two men reconciling their similarities and their differences. The one content to live as his predecessors had, the other restless and ill-focussed. The treacherous mountain is but one of the challenges the men face as they grow older and world-wearier. The narrative also illustrates just how tough subsistence living - especially in any traditional sense - can be, and at times the despair is palpable. That said, there is plenty of understated joy here, too. This isn't a depressing watch, it's actually quite an illuminating and uplifting one that I really did enjoy for just shy of the 2½ hours running time. The acting is good, the writing is plausible and the photography: the drones are put to great effect bringing us the beauty and hostility of this enthralling environment. It's a film about friendship and integrity, this - warts and all - and it also warns us of the dangers to rural livelihoods if left unsupported and neglected by society at large - especially those urban amongst us, safely ensconced behind our double gazing. Thought-provoking with a characterful richness - well worth settling down to watch.
Genres:
Release Date:
Dec 21, 2022 (Belgium,France,Italy,United Kingdom)
Run Time:
2hr 27`
MMPA Rating:
NR
Original Language:
Italian
Production Countries:
Belgium,France,Italy,United Kingdom
Status:
Released
Plot Keywords:
Related Movies To
The Eight Mountains - The Eight Mountains
"Pietro" (a scene stealing Lupo Barbiero) is a young boy taken by his mother from their home in Turin to a small mountain village where amongst the dozen or so residents he befriends "Bruno" (Cristiano Sassella). The latter boy lives with his cheese-making uncle, content to follow in his footsteps. After a few trips, the visiting family decide to offer "Bruno" an opportunity for education in the city, but when that comes a cropper the two boys become a bit estranged not just from each other, but "Pietro" from his dad (Filippo Timi) too. It is only when his father dies that "Pietro" (now Luca Marinelli) returns to the mountain where he is reintroduced to "Bruno" (Alessandro Borghi) and advised that his father has left him a ramshackle cottage high above the snow line. The two set about restoring this ruin and simultaneously rediscover their friendship. What now ensues is a throughly engaging story of two men reconciling their similarities and their differences. The one content to live as his predecessors had, the other restless and ill-focussed. The treacherous mountain is but one of the challenges the men face as they grow older and world-wearier. The narrative also illustrates just how tough subsistence living - especially in any traditional sense - can be, and at times the despair is palpable. That said, there is plenty of understated joy here, too. This isn't a depressing watch, it's actually quite an illuminating and uplifting one that I really did enjoy for just shy of the 2½ hours running time. The acting is good, the writing is plausible and the photography: the drones are put to great effect bringing us the beauty and hostility of this enthralling environment. It's a film about friendship and integrity, this - warts and all - and it also warns us of the dangers to rural livelihoods if left unsupported and neglected by society at large - especially those urban amongst us, safely ensconced behind our double gazing. Thought-provoking with a characterful richness - well worth settling down to watch.
This is an amazing and captivating study of the personal growth two men and their relationship over a forty-year period. It's never boring, in spite of the film length. The pacing is just perfect for the unfolding of kind of deep love that humans may have for each other. "In certain lives, there are mountains to which we may never return. That in lives like his and mine, you cannot go back to the mountain that is in the center of all the rest, and at the beginning of your own story. And that wandering around the eight mountains is all that remains." I'm sorry that I didn't read the book first. I read the preface, and Poalo Cognetti's writing style is poetic and flowing. At some point, I'll read it anyway. THIS is a good example of an award-winning book made into an award-winning film.
Cast & Crew of
The Eight Mountains - The Eight Mountains
Directors & Credit Writers
... First Assistant Director
... Assistant Director
... Director
Cast
... Pietro Guasti
... Bruno Guglielmina
... Pietro (as a child)
... Bruno (as a child)
... Lara
... Pietro (as a teenager)
... Asmi
... Francesca Guasti
... Giovanni Guasti
... Barbara
... Sonia
... Luigi, Bruno's uncle
... Bruno (as a teenager)
... Pablo
... Pablo
... Massimo
... Anita
... Bruno's father
... Woman with goats
... Refuge guardian
Produced By
... Executive Producer
... Unit Manager
... Producer
Videos & Photos of
The Eight Mountains - The Eight Mountains
Videos ( 2)
Official Trailer
YouTube
Official UK Trailer
YouTube
Photos ( 28 )
Related Movies To
The Eight Mountains - The Eight Mountains
The Flesh (1991)
5.6 /10
A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…
Run Time: 1hr 30` . MMPA: . Release: 09 May 1991
Director: Franco Tedescho , Paolo Costella , Martina Monicelli
Producer: Giuseppina Ciacia , Anna Maria Novelli , Fabrizio Rampelli
Stars: Sergio Castellitto , Francesca Dellera , Philippe Léotard , Farid Chopel , Petra Reinhardt , Gudrun Gundlach
Maladonna (1984)
4.8 /10
In late XIX century, rich and bored Maria (Paola Senatore) is after a more sexually interesting life and gets involved with Alessio who shows her other kinds of love. She soon becomes his sex slave but some unexpected consequences will arise from her desperate search for sexual fulfillment.
Run Time: 1hr 25` . MMPA: . Release: 30 Aug 1984
Director: Bruno Gaburro
Producer: Pino Buricchi
Stars: Paola Senatore , Maurice Poli , Claudia Cavalcanti , Daniel Stephen , Maurizio Boni , Jacques Stany
The Key (1983)
5.4 /10
Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...
Run Time: 1hr 50` . MMPA: . Release: 19 Oct 1983
Director: Carlo Montanaro , Domenico Saverni , Carla Cipriani
Producer: Mario Di Biase , Massimo Ferrero , Giovanni Bertolucci
Stars: Stefania Sandrelli , Frank Finlay , Franco Branciaroli , Barbara Cupisti , Armando Marra , Maria Grazia Bon
The Children's Train (2024)
0 /10
In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.
Run Time: 1hr 46` . MMPA: PG . Release: 21 Oct 2024
Director: Laura Muccino , Sara Casani , Cristina Comencini
Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti , Nicola Serra , Francesca Polic Greco
Stars: Barbara Ronchi , Serena Rossi , Christian Cervone , Francesco Di Leva , Antonia Truppo , Monica Nappo
Cheeky (2000)
5.4 /10
While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment overlooking the Thames. There, she meets the lesbian hyper-horny real estate agent Moira.
Run Time: 1hr 31` . MMPA: . Release: 28 Jan 2000
Director: Carla Cipriani , Isabel Vitturi , Tinto Brass
Producer: Carla Cipriani , Simone Onorati , Alberto Passone
Stars: Yuliya Mayarchuk , Jarno Berardi , Francesca Nunzi , Mauro Lorenz , Leila Carli , Vittorio Attene
The Tearsmith (2024)
0 /10
Adopted together after a tough childhood in an orphanage, Nica and Rigel realize that unexpected but irresistible feelings pull them together.
Run Time: 1hr 46` . MMPA: R . Release: 03 Apr 2024
Director: Alessandro Genovesi
Producer: Giulia Appolloni , Alessandro Usai , Valeria Miranda
Stars: Caterina Ferioli , Simone Baldasseroni , Sabrina Paravicini , Angelo Tanzi , Nicky Passarella , Alessandro Bedetti
Paprika (1991)
5.5 /10
Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls in love with her first client, naval officer Franco. Despite this attraction, she begins her climb through the sex trade, residing in Italy’s most illustrious brothels.
Run Time: 1hr 56` . MMPA: . Release: 13 Feb 1991
Director: Carla Cipriani , Germano Tarricone , Francesco Ascione
Producer: Claudio Bernabei , Massimo Santorsola , Mario Di Biase
Stars: Debora Caprioglio , Stéphane Bonnet , Stéphane Ferrara , Martine Brochard , Luigi Laezza , Rossana Gavinel
The Voyeur (1994)
5.5 /10
At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.
Run Time: 1hr 38` . MMPA: NR . Release: 27 Jan 1994
Director: Claudio Bernabei , Carla Cipriani , Sabrina Ascani
Producer: Marco Spoletini , Walter Mancini , Marco Valsania
Stars: Katarina Vasilissa , Francesco Casale , Cristina Garavaglia , Raffaella Offidani , Antonio Salines , Franco Branciaroli
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
8.5 /10
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Run Time: 2hr 46` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 21 Dec 1968
Director: Giancarlo Santi , Sergio Leone
Producer: Ugo Tucci , Fulvio Morsella , Bino Cicogna
Stars: Claudia Cardinale , Henry Fonda , Jason Robards , Charles Bronson , Gabriele Ferzetti , Paolo Stoppa
The Raffle (1991)
5.1 /10
Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.
Run Time: 1hr 33` . MMPA: . Release: 15 Nov 1991
Director: Susanna Napolitano , Maurizio Sciarra , Roberta Poiani
Producer: Massimo Aversano , Egidio Valentini , Lamberto Palmieri
Stars: Monica Bellucci , Giulio Scarpati , Massimo Ghini , Elena Cantarone , Carla Cassola , Sandra Collodel
Lola's Secret (1984)
4.8 /10
Young man has his dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she also has a secret that leads to trouble.
Run Time: 1hr 28` . MMPA: . Release: 04 May 1984
Director: Bruno Gaburro
Producer: Pino Buricchi
Stars: Donatella Damiani , Scott Coffey , Gabriele Tinti , Peter Boom , Jacques Stany , Maurice Poli
Playing with Love (1977)
5.6 /10
Laura and Fabrizio have been meeting every summer in the forest by her parent's summer home. Fabrizio is a solitary boy with only his dog for company; Laura a sweet but unconfident child. This summer new aspects enter into their story as both are growing up. Laura is falling in love with Fabrizio, while he displays a new sexual awareness of her masked by his malice. Things develop further when they meet Sylvia who, unlike the innocent Laura, is confident and assertive. Fabrizio develops a fascination with her, eventually bribing Laura to fetch her to the forest to join them in play.
Run Time: 1hr 34` . MMPA: R . Release: 17 May 1977
Director: Anita Rakosi , Pier Giuseppe Murgia
Producer: Günter Prantl , Franco Cancellieri
Stars: Lara Wendel , Éva Ionesco , Martin Loeb , Xylot