Pietro, who tells “The Eight Mountains,” a tender tale of love and friendship, is 11 when the film begins. By the time he’s in his early 30s, he’s become a man with a full beard and an insignificant resume. Sensitive, charismatic, and melancholic, Pietro is unattached and existentially unstable. Disconnected from his past and unsure of his future, he suffers from the familiar contemporary frustration that this narrative circulates restlessly without a name, and it looks a lot like the modern situation. increase.
Based on the 2016 slender and well-known novel by Italian author Paolo Conetti, The Eight Mountains follows Pietro through both decades and continents, exploring his life through the intense friendship he forged with Bruno during his childhood. I am painting my life. They first met in the summer of 1984, when Pietro’s parents (the family lives in Turin) lived in stunningly beautiful Italy, bordering France and Switzerland, in his Alpine belt, the Aosta Valley. It was when I rented an apartment in the village. There, surrounded by velvety green slopes and towering jagged peaks, Pietro finds friends, allies, role models, and eventually a sense of belonging.
It begins with them staring at each other suspiciously in Pietro’s dark, claustrophobic villa, but that changes quickly when they venture outside. share. Bruno is a confident, strong kid who can scale the side of a stone building like a goat running up a rock wall. He is being raised by an aunt and uncle — his mother is missing and his father works abroad as a bricklayer — an only child in his village, where the population, like other rural areas, is haunted. has dwindled to dozens of people. .
These early scenes are engrossing, partly because it’s so much fun to see happy kids happy together, and this is a particularly great place to explore. In, you are immediately plunged into the splendor and mystery of the area, dense foliage, enigmatic abandoned corners, dramatic and seemingly endless vistas. They exchange useful information even when they are rushing through the streets and chatting — Pietro’s father works as an engineer in a large factory — and the two remain visually linked. It is the material world.
