THE MOUNTAIN
Director: Rick Alverson
Country/Distributor: USA, Kino Lorber
Opening: July 26
In the 1950s-set road movie , Rick Alverson, whose films anatomize American spiritual’s gamer boy, here plays the differently zombified Andy. His mother institutionalized, Andy moves in a fugue state, sharpening skates and driving the Zamboni at the local ice rink, snowed under with Freudian dreams. A father figure emerges: Dr. Wallace Fiennes (Jeff Goldblum), the surgeon who performed a transorbital lobotomy on Andy’s mother. With a dazed flicker of guilt, “Wally” takes Andy on as his factotum as he crisscrosses chilly landscapes like a traveling salesman, his miracle-cure tools a long pick and dainty silver hammer.
