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| Netflix | Release Date: November 24, 2021 |
Starring:
Antoine Lelandais, Damien Boisseau, Elisabeth Ventura, Eric Herson-Macarel, François Dunoyer, Gauthier Battoue, Kylian Rehlinger, Lazare Herson-Macarel, Luc Bernard, Marc Arnaud, Philippe Vincent, Rich Ting, Richard Koyasu Park
Movie Facts:
- Debuts on Netflix on November 30, 2021.
Summary:
Fukamachi, a young Japanese photojournalist, finds a camera that could change the history of mountaineering. It leads him to the mysterious Habu, an outcast climber believed missing for years. Fukamachi enters a world of obsessive mountaineers hungry for impossible conquests on a journey that leads him, step by step, towards the summit of the gods.
Director:
Patrick Imbert
Genre(s):
Adventure, Drama, History, Sport, Mystery, Animation
Runtime:
95 min
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Nov 24, 2021
One of the truly great animated films this year, one that now places Imbert alongside fellow countrymen Jérémy Clapin (I Lost My Body) and Rémi Chayé (Calamity) as part of a new generation of French animation talent that is delivering high quality animated projects in both story and style.
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The Playlist
Nov 22, 2021
Nov 24, 2021
The Summit of the Gods’ complex storytelling and convincingly lovely vistas make its philosophical case well: Whether you’re risking it all to get to a peak, to get to the bottom of a mystery, or to create a painstaking piece of animation, you’re lucky enough to have something you love.
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Nov 24, 2021
The film’s beautifully painted mountains are particularly striking, and the climbing sequences are among its standouts. Live-action has nothing on the way these scenes convey both the majestic scale of the peaks and the technical skill necessary to attempt these summits (as well as the physical toll involved).
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IndieWire
Dec 1, 2021
It’s here, in these more high-altitude and less high-minded passages that “The Summit of the Gods” reaches the peak of its power, as the lush 2D animation indulges in the kind of ecstatically true vistas that live action would never allow, while Amine Bouhafa’s gorgeous and beguiling score makes every step feel like a spiritual proposition before exploding into an avalanche of synths.
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RogerEbert.com
Nov 24, 2021
Mar 6, 2022
One of the truly great animated films this year, one that now places Imbert alongside fellow countrymen Jérémy Clapin (I Lost My Body) and Rémi Chayé (Calamity) as part of a new generation of French animation talent that is delivering high quality animated projects in both story and style.
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Dec 3, 2021
Amazing artwork and animation, solid story. Very good movie, hopefully will lead to more quality stories being told in anime fashion. There is no reason the anime style cannot be widely adopted into all genres in film and tv shows.
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Dec 17, 2021
While the film intermittently stuns in revealing Everest’s topographical mystique, its expedition into what makes climbers tick struggles to get off the ground.
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