Film & Television
John Maguire: Towering Eight Mountains explores the growing chasm between two life-long friends
Duo become firm friends as children, go their separate ways and are reunited as adults but their different backgrounds and experiences lead to differences that can’t be reconciled
A boyhood friendship forged amid the splendour of the Italian Alps endures across decades and distance in Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s patient and profound The Eight Mountains, adapted by the co-directors from the novel of the same title by Paolo Cognetti. It smoothly arranges snapshots of time place, and character in tracing the platonic bond between two men whose paths in life cross and cross again.
During the summer of 1984, Pietro (played ...
