Mountains

Name: Mountains
Genre: Drama
Released: August 16, 2024
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 81
Cast: Atibon Nazaire, Chris Renois, Farley Louis, Karina Bonnefil, Kerline Alce

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Music Box Films | Release Date: August 16, 2024 | NR

Starring: Atibon Nazaire, Chris Renois, Farley Louis, Karina Bonnefil, Kerline Alce, Macc Plaise, Serafin Falcon, Sheila Anozier, Starr Leavitt, Yaniel Castillo

Summary: In Miami’s Little Haiti, Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife Esperance (Sheila Anozier) holds down two jobs to sustain their cozy household. Their routine is tested when their son Junior (Chris Renois) returns home after dropping out of college. Xavier and Esperance struggle to relate with Junior,In Miami’s Little Haiti, Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife Esperance (Sheila Anozier) holds down two jobs to sustain their cozy household. Their routine is tested when their son Junior (Chris Renois) returns home after dropping out of college. Xavier and Esperance struggle to relate with Junior, who is no longer interested in speaking Creole with them and harbors ambitions of an artistic career path they do not understand. Xavier aspires to buy a more spacious house for his family, but still wakes up every morning, goes to work, and dismantles his neighborhood brick by brick. Yet even as construction vehicles rumble down the block, Little Haiti remains a vibrant community with traditions and rhythms distinctly its own. … Expand

Director: Monica Sorelle

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 95 min

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Angelica Jade Bastien

Oct 1, 2024

Mountains is a film smart enough to forgo simplistic melodrama or narrative neatness. It’s the kind that dares us to look back and consider what it means to create a home away from the shores where you were born, in a country hostile not just to your betterment but to your very survival. Read full review

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IndieWire Christian Blauvelt

Aug 23, 2024

Sorelle has said that she created “Mountains” as a movie where “between plots lie moments.” How refreshing. Especially since those moments really feel like they exist, more than just “being captured.” Read full review

Liam Lacey

Sep 25, 2024

In this nuanced and often joyful film, the only violence involves the recurrent crash of bulldozers through stucco and timber walls as the neighbourhood transforms and some dreams get crushed as well. Read full review

Collider Erick Massoto

Sep 25, 2023

Mountains is the kind of movie that reminds us why we love to sit in the dark and peek at other people’s lives. It’s a three-way character study that teaches us about life, parenthood, marriage, and expectations without ever feeling preachy, boring, or flimsy. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

Jul 30, 2024

Even when Mountains’ narrative, which often feels more like a series of beautifully conjured vignettes, doesn’t hit its full potential, the way Sorelle thinks of gentrification rewards our close attention. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 8, 2024

Sorelle and her documentary-real characters and the grounded unknown players playing them humanize their culture and show us their challenges are versions of all our challenges, no matter how many generations removed from it we think we are. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Aug 22, 2024

As a drama, Mountains, whose characters move fluidly between English and Haitian Creole, is too low-key to leave much of an impression. But as a portrait of intergenerational tensions in an immigrant family, it is poignant, and it captures an area of Miami that is rarely seen onscreen. Read full review

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