Le Otto Montagne (The Eight Mountains) review – rich, beautiful and inexpressibly sad | Cannes 2022
This rich, beautiful and inexpressibly sad film is about the friendship between men who can’t talk about their feelings and about winning and losing at the great game of life. It is set in the breathtaking and wonderfully photographed Italian Alpine valley of Aosta, which includes the slopes of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn. But the “eight mountains” of the title refers to the eight highest peaks of Nepal: a mysterious symbol of worldly ambition and conquest.Belgian film-makers Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte…