The Mountain

Kino Lorber | Release Date: July 26, 2019

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JLuis_001May 5, 2022

A somewhat bleak, lethargic and occasionally incomprehensible tale that doesn't allow for much room of interpretation, or at least that's the impression it gave me.

The story itself is quite crude. What I read before watching the filmA somewhat bleak, lethargic and occasionally incomprehensible tale that doesn't allow for much room of interpretation, or at least that's the impression it gave me.

The story itself is quite crude. What I read before watching the film informed me that it is loosely inspired by Walter Jackson Freeman II, a doctor who travelled around the USs visiting various asylums where he performed lobotomies, mostly on women and gay people. Needless to say how troubling this was.

That character goes by the name of Wallace Fiennes in this film and is played by a glacial Jeff Goldblum, but the story is more focused on his assistant Andy who is played by Tye Sheridan who barely speaks throughout the entire ordeal.

The coldness of its delivery imposes a barrier that I believe was intentionally put in place by its director.
It feels as if the world of the story has been abandoned, and even though the events are set in the 1950s, the feeling that we're experiencing a time-bubble in which the people were completely frozen in that era is overwhelming.

Unfortunately that glacial approach also turns The Mountain into a film that is far from accessible, becoming cumbersome after a while due to its total inability to alter its pace and tone, so beyond its perspective of being a film that doesn't try to cater to the mainstream crowd, it also becomes a conflicting and polarizing proposal within the realms of arthouse cinema.… Expand

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