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The Mountain

Directed by Rick Alverson

Release: 2019
Runtime: 106
Country: U.S.
Language: English
Director: Rick Alverson

Set against the 1950’s "golden age" of American male supremacy, an introverted young photographer (Tye Sheridan) joins a renowned lobotomist (Jeff Goldblum) on a tour to promote the doctor’s recently-debunked procedure. As he increasingly identifies with the asylum’s patients, he becomes enamored with a rebellious young woman (Hannah Gross) and lost in the burgeoning New Age movement of the west. Also starring Denis Lavant and Udo Kier.

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"A hallucinatory nightmare of loneliness, alienation, and Oedipal desire. Boasts shades of Stanley Kubrick and Yorgos Lanthimos even as it carves out its own peculiar, penetrating identity."

– – Nick Schager, Esquire

“A beautiful… singular portrait of America’s fractured identity.”

– – Eric Kohn, Indiewire

“Genuinely menacing. A near-hypnotic pall of strangeness.”

– – Guy Lodge, Variety

"Mesmerizing. Weirdly beautiful."

– – Jeannette Catsoulis, The New York Times

"Brilliant, blistering."

– – Andrew Lapin, NPR

"Visually transfixing."

– – Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

“Dark and visionary.”

– – Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter

“Surreally gorgeous. Replete with unsettling, rewarding pleasures.”

– – Leonard Goi, MUBI

"Gorgeously rendered... an unsettling trip through the 20th century American psyche."

– – David Fear, Rolling Stone

“Shimmeringly surreal. Lanthimos meets Roy Andersson meets a heavy dose of lithium.”

– – Jessica Kiang, The Playlist

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Tye Sheridan and Jeff Goldblum in a scene from <i>The Mountain</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Tye Sheridan and Jeff Goldblum in a scene from <i>The Mountain</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Jeff Goldblum in a scene from <i>The Mountain</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber
Tye Sheridan in a scene from <i>The Mountain</i>, courtesy Kino Lorber

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Technical Info

  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Color: Color
  • Formats: Blu-ray, DVD

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