THE SUMMIT OF THE GODS

| 2021 –  95′  – ANIMATION, DRAMA

Written by: Jean-Charles Ostorero, Patrick Imbert, Magali Pouzol.
Directed by: Patrick Imbert.
Voices: Lazare Herson-Macarel, Eric Herson-Macarel, François Dunoyer, Philippe Vincent, Luc Bernard, Marc Arnaud, Jerome Keen.
Official selection Cannes International Film Festival 2021.
Official Competition COLCOA 2021: Winner American Students Award.
In French with English subtitles.
A Netflix release. |

Were George Mallory and Andrew Irvine the first men to scale Mount Everest in 1924? That innocent question, challenging recorded mountaineering history, launches a young Japanese photo-journalist on his own philosophical path of discovery in Patrick Imbert’s elegantly animated adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi’s and Baku Yumemakura’s manga masterpiece. Meticulous graphics and pitch-perfect sound design convey both the thrill of the quest and the film’s heightened sense of impending danger at each vertiginous step. The Summit of the Gods is ultimately a suspenseful, profound discourse on Man’s unfathomable need to surpass nature and the catharsis inherent in climbing walls of stone and ice.

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