Kahdeksan vuorta - Arvostelut

This rich, beautiful and inexpressibly sad film is about the friendship between men who can’t talk about their feelings and about winning and losing at the great game of life.

By committing to the pace of life’s steady tides, Groeningen and Vandermeersch build an entrancing elegy to friendship, and as we bid farewell to the two men, it is as painful as saying goodbye to old friends.

...gorgeously shot tale of male bonding in the Alps.

...that rare example of a film that simply represents the challenges and rich rewards of quiet male bonding.

Felix Van Groeningen finds light and deep tenderness in the Italian alps.

Rich in novelistic detail and lucid in its realism, the film is a meditative, slow crescendo of wounded feelings and quiet epiphanies.

...a nuanced dual character study.

Brilliant landscape photography and two pairs of poignant performances elevate the drama to an enjoyable distance above sea level.

...works because of its slowness and patience, not despite it. A film like this needs time to establish the building blocks of the relationship and allow the breathing room necessary. 

Det här är i första hand en skildring av manlig vänskap, som omöjligen kan hålla i längden. Ruben Impens imponerande foto får man liksom på köpet.

Vemodigt och bitterljuvt (inte minst tack vare svenske talangen Daniel Norgrens musik), med scener filmade i Alperna och Himalaya som lyfter känslan av isolering in i själen.

En lyriskt vacker berättelse om att längta efter outforskad mark eller rota sig i förfädernas redan brukade.

Filmen besitter en hudnära mix av vemod och längtan, där fokus snarare ligger på ljuset i slutet av tunneln än mörkret de föranleddes av.

...en smuk film, der føles dyb og rig.