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With Lupo Barbiero, Cristiano Sassella, Elena Lietti, Chiara Jorrioz. An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
Apr 27, 2023 · Mostly, though, what grounds “The Eight Mountains” are the three sets of actors who play Pietro and Bruno as children (Lupo Barbiero and Cristiano Sassella); as teenagers (Andrea Palma and...
May 5, 2023 · Among them is a tough kid his own age, Bruno (Cristiano Sassella) and they easily play together in this astonishing landscape that is the overwhelming presence throughout the film – in different seasons and contrasting types of weather, and at various times of day.
Apr 23, 2023 · Sparingly narrated by Pietro, The Eight Mountains reveals Bruno (played as a child by Cristiano Sassella) to the audience almost as if he were a mythological object, the only child in the fading Italian village of Grana near the Alps.
May 5, 2023 · The tale begins when Pietro (Lupo Barbiero) meets Bruno (Cristiano Sassella), a local son of cowherders, while vacationing with his parents in the provincial village of Grana. Their kinship and connection—sweetly rollicking through the fields and splashing in the river—is immediately apparent, as are their differences.
May 18, 2022 · He meets Bruno (Cristiano Sassella), the self-described “last child in the village,” and through herding cows and clambering on rocks and splashing in clear mountain lakes, the two 11-year-olds...
May 18, 2022 · He meets a boy of the same age, Bruno (Cristiano Sassella), who identifies himself as “the last child in the village,” which has shrunk in population from 183 to just 14 inhabitants. A road...
