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The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by
The doc drags a bit by the end, but the film's message is sent: "Man's wish to be first induces forms of insanity."
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
The relationship between image and music, here, proves more rich and rewarding than the movies generally offer today, as one is not clearly subordinate to the other.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Harry Windsor
The result is one of the most visceral essay films ever made, with Peedom and her Sherpa altitude cinematographer Renan Ozturk unfurling a series of glistening images that should be seen only on the biggest of big screens.
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Wall Street Journal by Joe Morgenstern
An impressive and self-impressed documentary by Jennifer Peedom, has some of the best speck shots you could imagine—not spec as in speculation, though the film offers plenty of that on the subject of why human beings choose to climb tall peaks, but speck as in the size of a human seen against a stupendous alpine landscape.
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The New York Times by Ken Jaworowski
For those terrified of heights, Mountain will be a nonstop nightmare. Yet big scares are a small price for the awe-inspiring footage you’ll see. As for what you’ll hear, that takes a little explaining.
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Los Angeles Times by Michael Rechtshaffen
Awe-inspiring visuals and equally stirring orchestrations combine to fittingly majestic effect in Mountain, a unique portrait of mankind's enduring fascination with the world's most formidable summits.
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The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
The pictures are remarkable. It’s something to seek out on the big screen.
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RogerEbert.com by Susan Wloszczyna
This vertiginous valentine to high-altitude sport attempts to portray, in the most poetic of terms, why mankind feels the need to defy gravity by painstakingly clawing its way into the upper reaches of the atmosphere while risking life and limb.
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Tracing how the world’s peaks came to be viewed as playgrounds, it needs to be seen on the big screen for its vertiginous images of high-altitude adventurers.