A deserving Jury Prize winner at Cannes, this new film is narratively conventional, overlong and occasionally tangential, but it builds slowly and meaningfully towards a sense of catharsis that’s as big as the elevations of the title.
The plot concerns the enduring friendship of Pietro and Bruno, who encounter each other at the age of 11 during the summer of 1984. Pietro is from Turin. His mother is a teacher and his father is an engineer. Adult life in the professional classes seems inevitable. During that early holiday Pietro’s family leases a dwelling in a hamlet in the Italian Alps. Bruno is the only other child in the remote, depopulated village.
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