Movie

The Mountain

2019 · 106 min

A cold, hypnotic trance of a film that drifts through sterile institutions and snowy landscapes, leaving a lingering unease.

Overview: 1950s America. Since his mother‘s confinement to an institution, Andy has lived in the shadow of his stoic father. A family acquaintance, Dr. Wallace Fiennes, employs the introverted young man as a photographer to document an asylum tour advocating for his increasingly controversial lobotomy procedure.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, eerie and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Isolation, grief, identity, madness
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
grief
identity
madness
memory
Places: hospital
countryside
road trip
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild