The Eight Mountains

The Eight Mountains

Based on the best-selling novel by Paolo Cognetti , “The Eight Mountains” spans almost 40 years, showing a lifelong friendship between two seemingly very different people, men who became fast friends as children and remain friends, even though life, time, and circumstances, often drive them apart.

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The Eight Mountains Directors on Conveying an Epic Scope, Losing Parents, and Letting Go of Their Film

The Eight Mountains Directors on Conveying an Epic Scope, Losing Parents, and Letting Go of Their Film

An intimate story of friendship projected across the vast alpine Italian landscape, Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains is a stirring, at times spiritual experience of reconnection on both human and environmental levels.

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Alice Rohrwacher on Working With Her Sister: ‘We Always Tell Each Other the Truth, Even If It Hurts’

Alice Rohrwacher on Working With Her Sister: ‘We Always Tell Each Other the Truth, Even If It Hurts’

Having won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival for “Le Meraviglie” (The Wonders) in 2014, and the screenplay award there for “Lazzaro Felice” (Happy as Lazzaro) in 2018, Alice Rohrwacher is very pleased that her latest feature, “La Chimera,” starring Isabella Rossellini, Josh O’Connor and her sister Alba Rohrwacher, will also compete at the festival.

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