Mountains

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Mountains

2024

1h 35m

Drama

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In Miami's Little Haiti, Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife Esperance (Sheila Anozier) holds down two jobs to sustain their cozy household. Their routine is tested when their son Junior (Chris Renois) returns home after dropping out of college. Xavier and Esperance struggle to relate with Junior, who is no longer interested in speaking Creole with them and harbors ambitions of an artistic career path they do not understand. Xavier aspires to buy a more spacious house for his family, but still wakes up every morning, goes to work, and dismantles his neighborhood brick by brick. Yet even as construction vehicles rumble down the block, Little Haiti remains a vibrant community with traditions and rhythms distinctly its own. Monica Sorelle's tender feature debut is a multigenerational drama that deftly explores the relationships between immigrants and their children, the looming threat of gentrification, and the pursuit of the American dream.

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A beautifully acted and observant portrait of a family and their community, Mountains marks an impressive debut by director Monica Sorelle.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

10/16/2024

3.5/4

Sorelle’s gentle beauty of a film is no downer, reflecting a resilient culture that refuses to be bulldozed over to make way for luxury homes.

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Angelica Jade Bastién

New York Magazine/Vulture

10/01/2024

It’s the kind that dares us to look back and consider what it means to create a home away from the shores where you were born, in a country hostile not just to your betterment but to your very survival.

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Odie Henderson

Boston Globe

09/13/2024

3.5/4

“Mountains” immerses us in its universe because the filmmakers want to make clear what will be lost by the current and impending gentrification of the area.

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Will Bjarnar

Geek Vibes Nation

Jul 19

7/10

To say that little happens in Mountains isn’t exactly untrue, but it also underscores Sorelle’s deft manner of mining burbling tension from the bellows of a rapidly-decaying locale without ever overdramatizing its inevitable coming to a head.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

May 24

It’s a wonderful work of drama but also one of non-fiction, accompanied by the terrible crashing sounds of homes being reduced to lots for sale.

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Sarah Boslaugh

TheArtsStl

01/16/2025

8/10

...contrasts the experience of living in a tight-knit minority community with the threats posed to that community by so-called urban renewal, a.k.a. gentrification.

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In Miami's Little Haiti, Xavier (Atibon Nazaire) makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife Esperance (Sheila Anozier) holds down two jobs to sustain their cozy household. Their routine is tested when their son Junior (Chris Renois) returns home after dropping out of college. Xavier and Esperance struggle to relate with Junior, who is no longer interested in speaking Creole with them and harbors ambitions of an artistic career path they do not understand. Xavier aspires to buy a more spacious house for his family, but still wakes up every morning, goes to work, and dismantles his neighborhood brick by brick. Yet even as construction vehicles rumble down the block, Little Haiti remains a vibrant community with traditions and rhythms distinctly its own. Monica Sorelle's tender feature debut is a multigenerational drama that deftly explores the relationships between immigrants and their children, the looming threat of gentrification, and the pursuit of the American dream.

Director: Monica Sorelle
Producer: Robert Colom
Screenwriter: Monica Sorelle, Robert Colom
Distributor: Music Box Films
Production Co: Neon Heart Productions
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Haitian Creole
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 16, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 24, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $46.7K
Runtime: 1h 35m