thegreatbeast2000 Review of Treeless Mountain

Treeless Mountain (2008)

I can't understand how so many people didn't 'get' this film.

[9/10 · 11 January 2011]

Mr. Schumann's review was the best I've read here. He pretty much said everything I wanted to say. This is a beautiful film. It is not a Hollywood film and doesn't tie up everything neatly in the end. There is no denouement; the film ends and you are left with a pocket full of the wonders. The two young girls were not aspiring actresses with agents and head-shots. They could not have been better and I was shocked to find that they were not sisters. The director kept her camera close to kids' faces and sort of provides another proof of an old Eisenstein experiment. A tremendous film, truly moving in an almost Dickensian way. See it. I've been catching it on the Sundance Channel. It is scheduled to play on Saturday around 2:50pm. The date would be 1/15/11.