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Mountains (2024)

Aug 16, 2024 Drama 1h 35m
User Score
75%
2 votes
Internet Movie Database
69%
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
Metacritic
8100%

Home is home, anywhere

Overview

While looking for a new home for his family, a Haitian demolition worker is faced with the realities of redevelopment as he is tasked with dismantling his rapidly gentrifying Miami neighborhood.

Monica Sorelle
Director
Robert Colom
Writer

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MOUNTAINS | Official Trailer | In Select Theaters August 16
MOUNTAINS | Official Trailer | In Select Theaters August 16
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MONICA SORELLE wins the SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards
MONICA SORELLE wins the SOMEONE TO WATCH AWARD at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards
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Film Independent Presents MOUNTAINS Cast & Crew Q&A
Film Independent Presents MOUNTAINS Cast & Crew Q&A
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A review by Brent Marchant
Written on September 2, 2024

When an established community (and its associated culture) begins to disappear, its constituents (particularly those who come from an immigrant background) start to experience a palpable sense of passing into oblivion. At the same time, though, some of the residents of those neighborhoods are faced with the dilemma of having to ask themselves, “Am I part of the loss or part of its cause? And, in either case, how do I deal with the outcome and my role in it?” Such is the case for Xavier (Atibon Nazaire), a structural demolition worker who resides in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood with his wife, Esperance (Sheila Anozier), and his adult son, Xavier Jr. (Chris Renois). The community is rapidly and aggressively becoming gentrified with each building that’s being bought up and hastil...

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A review by badelf
Written on February 14, 2025

Mountains: A Mille-feuille of Layered Subtexts

In Monica Sorelle's "Mountains", a seemingly simple film about gentrification is much more than urban transformation. In one of several subtexts of this rich film, it's a profound exploration of how unmet expectations erode the human spirit.

Set in Miami's Little Haiti, the film follows Xavier, a demolition worker whose daily labor of tearing down houses for his own neighborhood's gentrification becomes a metaphor for the systematic dismantling of personal and collective dreams.

Psychological research by Davidai and Gilovich, and Buddhist philosophy also, hold that unmet expectations cause suffering. Sorelle's subtext demonstrates how attachment to expectations creates internal "demolition" more devastating than any physical reconstru...

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