The Mountain

In this clever, minimalist, poetic, mystical, and at times delirious story of thoughtful escapism, an engineer who works in an unsurprising corporate environment, demonstrating robotic technologies to equally disinterested clients, decides to change his life in a single moment, during a work trip in the Alps. Irresistibly attracted by the view from his window, he camps out alone high in the mountains and leaves behind his previous life. Up there he meets Léa, a chef of an alpine restaurant, while mysterious glows glitter in the deep mountains… Actor-director Thomas Salvador (who has always dreamt of becoming a mountain guide) gives a tour-de-force performance in this astonishing work, even though the real protagonist is the frozen, imposing landscape of Mont Blanc. Following a barebone, straightforward narrative structure, the journey of a man who turns his back to society to meet a different world has a delicate love story nestling at the heart of the film but also features one of the most delightfully unexpected plot – and mood – twists in the recent history of cinema. A highly timid film, reaching immense depths of ambition.