WATCH: Bromance brews on the mountains in this stirring ode to male friendship
stays in the tiny Italian mountain village of Grana, right?Okay, maybe not quite. But is it just the altitude, or is there something special between these two?The Eight Mountains is a sweeping, sentimental new film about the bonds of male friendship from Charlotte Vandermeersch and Oscar-nominated Belgian filmmaker Felix van Groeningen (The Broken Circle Breakdown), adapting Paolo Cognetti’s debut award-winning novel.We first meet Pietro and Bruno when they’re 11 years old.
Pietro is, effectively, a “city boy” who heads up to the mountains on holiday with his family. The village they vacation to has been gradually vacated, so Bruno’s the only kid left of the same age, already tasked with working on his family’s farm.Despite their different backgrounds, the two become fast friends, and only grow closer and closer with each passing summer.
Until, one day, their lives set them on different paths.Years later, Pietro (now played by Luca Marinelli, best known as one of the gay heroes in The Old Guard) learns his estranged father has passed, and he’s left to tend to the family’s remote plot of land, way up in the mountains where he used to vacation.Back in Grana, he reconnects with Bruno (Suburra‘s Alessandro Borghi) and enlists his old pal to build a new place on the family plot of land.
Spending their days alone together, the two find themselves reminiscing about their pasts and dreaming about their futures.Y Tu Mamá También is a sexy roadtrip movie that leads Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna down a road they never expected.So, is there something gay going on here?
