The journey from book to movie is arduous and fraught. It is exceedingly rare for a movie to flatly exceed its source (e.g. The Godfather) and perhaps even less common for the movie to be a perfect distillation of the novel. The Eight Mountains is that. It brings every scene and every character to life exactly as you might have imagined them from Paolo Cognetti’s book. A story of friendship, the struggle for meaningful identity, and the constant tension between journeys that take you far from home and those that that never leave. (Criterion)
We are not rational animals, we are animals that must work to be rational
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