South Mountain

Name: South Mountain
Genre: Drama
Released: May 5, 2020
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Andrus Nichols, Guthrie Mass, Isis Masoud, Macaulee Cassaday, Michael Oberholtzer

2020

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Breaking Glass Pictures | Release Date (Streaming): May 5, 2020 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrus Nichols, Guthrie Mass, Isis Masoud, Macaulee Cassaday, Michael Oberholtzer, Midori Francis, Naian González Norvind, Scott Cohen, Talia Balsam, Violet Rea

Summary: Lila (Talia Balsam) is an artist who teaches at a community college and has built a modest rural paradise in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her husband Edgar (Scott Cohen). Soon after their teenaged daughters head off on summer adventures and her best friend Gigi (Andrus Nichols) begins chemotherapy, Edgar reveals he has started a newLila (Talia Balsam) is an artist who teaches at a community college and has built a modest rural paradise in New York’s Catskill Mountains with her husband Edgar (Scott Cohen). Soon after their teenaged daughters head off on summer adventures and her best friend Gigi (Andrus Nichols) begins chemotherapy, Edgar reveals he has started a new family with another woman. This leaves Lila alone for a season of explosive grief and self re-discovery that focuses on an unconventional friendship with a younger man (Michael Oberholtzer).… Expand

Director: Hilary Brougher

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 82 min

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Alex Saveliev

May 5, 2020

The female-centric, lo-fi South Mountain is an excellent example of how little a budget matters when all the other puzzle pieces are in place. We need more cinema like this. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Mar 20, 2019

The movie ... sometimes sags into a lethargic pace and unwieldy tangents. ... But there’s no doubting the presence of a focused, intelligent vision guiding the small-scale material along. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jun 19, 2019

As highlighted by its pitch-perfect finale, South Mountain demonstrates a realistically complex conception of stock ideas like “vengeance,” “moving on” and “healing,” and Ethan Mass’s cinematography echoes the material’s dualities in its delicate interplay of light and dark. Guiding the material from start to finish, however, is Balsam. Read full review

Glenn Kenny

May 7, 2020

Balsam is marvelous throughout, precisely measured in portraying a state often teetering on abjection. Balsam’s Lila can turn from luminescent to hangdog in a flash. The character’s inner worlds register with exceptional vividness. Read full review

Alissa Wilkinson

May 6, 2020

South Mountain suggests that the moments that break us can also give us the space and excuse to grow and re-mold ourselves in new ways. There’s joy in those broken spaces. Read full review

Stephen Farber

Mar 19, 2019

South Mountain transcends the limitations of some nakedly personal films to offer an affecting vision of frayed family ties. Read full review

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Jun 3, 2020

heartwarming geniously cinematography ..the conflict pace is interesting to watch..loveable movie n nice poster too..

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