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The Mountain

2011 · 73 min

A quiet, snowbound trek where grief and friction between two people slowly surface against stark, beautiful mountains.

Directed by: Ole Giæver
Genres: Drama
Starring: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Marte Magnusdotter Solem

Overview: This is the story of Nora and Solveig, a grief-stricken couple on a hike through the mountain range where they had a traumatic experience two years prior. Nora and Solveig are hiking through a snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months pregnant, seems incapable of doing anything the way Nora wants her to. The further the women advance on their trip, the closer they come to the place where a tragic incident happened two years earlier; one that changed their lives completely...

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Directed by: Ole Giæver
Genres: Drama
Starring: Ellen Dorrit Petersen, Marte Magnusdotter Solem

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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
isolation
love
family
survival
Places: wilderness
countryside
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	2
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	8
Romance	4
Tension	6
Darkness	6
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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