The Mountain

Original title: Fjellet

2011
1h 13m

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Nora and Solveig are hiking through snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months pr... Read allNora and Solveig are hiking through snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months pregnant, seems incapable of doing anything the way Nora wants her to. The further the women... Read allNora and Solveig are hiking through snow-covered, rough, but beautiful scenery on a tour of several days that will take the two young women to the top of a mountain. Solveig, three months pregnant, seems incapable of doing anything the way Nora wants her to. The further the women advance on their trip, the closer they come to the place where a tragic accident happened... Read all

Director
- Ole Giæver
Writer
- Ole Giæver
Stars
- Ellen Dorrit Petersen
- Marte Magnusdotter Solem

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5.6/10

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Director
- Ole Giæver
Writer
- Ole Giæver
Stars
- Ellen Dorrit Petersen
- Marte Magnusdotter Solem

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Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations total

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Ellen Dorrit Petersen

Solveig

Marte Magnusdotter Solem

Nora

Director
- Ole Giæver
Writer
- Ole Giæver
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4/10

Lesbians in the mountains

This is overambitious. It tries to problematize surrogate motherhood and the feelings this gives towards the respective parents and lesbian parenthood in itself. You see one of the characters read Bergmans 'Fanny och Alexander' at one point, but that is a huge contrast to this movie's drama. It needs a bit psychological depth than the ones accusation of not doing this and that the right way and the other not understanding and looking away or getting emotional in return, at least to measure itself against a master like Bergman. Someone like Jon Fosse should have helped with the screenplay.

The actresses are not very good, both giving a one sided performance.

However using mountains as locations is underestimated, so kudos for bringing the equipment out into harsh weather to bring the beauty to the audience.