The Mountain Film Review. The mountain with its long stretches of quiet bleak subject matter and alverson s staunch refusal to let us in or fill in the blanks creates a genuinely unnerving mood. 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 tye sheridan udo kier larry fessenden margot klein. The mountain with its long stretches of quiet bleak subject matter and alverson s staunch refusal to let us in or fill in the blanks creates a genuinely unnerving mood. Run in 2018 this 1979 film focuses on mortal ambition and corruption instead.
The performance disrupts the film s trance like atmosphere and woozy narrative rhythms and it s left to the director of photography.
The story of a young man who after losing his mother goes to work with a doctor specializing in lobotomies and therapies. Full review joe friar the victoria advocate. The mountain is not for everyone but it is most emphatically something else. Directed by rick alverson.