The Eight Mountains

The Cannes Jury Prize this year went to Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch for The Eight Mountains, based on Paolo Cognetti’s bestseller of the same name. It’s a film about friendship, majestic mountains and what really matters in life. A captivating story of how children become men who try to retrace their fathers’ footsteps, but who always come home in the end despite life’s challenging moments. A meticulous work that deserves the big screen during its Slovak premiere at the Cinematik festival.

IT/BE/FR, 2022, 147 min.; it / cz tit