![]() ![]() ![]() You might flash back to an earlier moment from their boyhood days, when young Pietro (Lupo Barbiero), unaccustomed to high altitudes, collapsed in exhaustion while mountain climbing, embarrassing himself in front of his nature-loving father, Giovanni (Filippo Timi), and the tougher, hardier Bruno (Cristiano Sassella). The scene is especially moving because even by this point, fairly early in a picture that runs almost 2 ½ hours and spans a few decades, you already have a good understanding of who Pietro and Bruno are, how they live, what they long for. Here are two pals sharing a moment of exquisite communion, but who are nonetheless forebodingly separated by a chasm, one that will keep widening despite their every attempt to bridge it. It’s a blissful, tender image of friendship that, like so many images in this movie, contains bittersweet multitudes. In time, he makes it to the top and, barely pausing to take in the staggering view, crows in triumph to his friend Bruno (Alessandro Borghi), who’s doing some construction work down in the valley below. In the most exhilarating moment in “The Eight Mountains,” a movie of soaring visual majesty and churning emotional force, a dark-haired young man named Pietro (Luca Marinelli) clambers excitedly up a rocky slope somewhere in the Italian Alps, the camera keeping pace with his slow but steady ascent. ![]()
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