'Le Otto Montagne' (The Eight
Mountains), one of two Italian films competing for the Palme
d'Or at Cannes, got 10 minutes of applause at the French
Riviera film festival Thursday.
Belgian directors Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van
Groeningen and leading actors Luca Marinelli and Alessandro
Borghi stood up and enjoyed the warm reception for their film.
Critical response has been positive too with Variety calling the
film, an adaptation of the novel by Paolo Cognetti, "a moving
story, intimate and epic".
The Guardian called it "rich, beautiful and inexpressibly sad".
The British daily's critic Peter Bradley said: "A meditation on
our capacity for love shapes this sweeping story of two friends,
torn apart by family and life's journeys but bound by something
deeper."
Mario Martone also competes at Cannes this year with
'Nostalgia', a film that follows a man who returns to his old
neighborhood in Naples after a 40-year absence.
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