Let's get this out of the way — The Mountain is unusual, introducing a surreal mystery that's never truly explained. That's probably a dealbreaker for a lot of people, but adventurous or curious audiences who can embrace ambiguity will find much to adore in the movie. Filmmaker Thomas Salvador stars as Pierre, a Parisian businessman who experiences a kind of midlife crisis and heads to the Alps. He calls in sick at first, but finds that something is drawing him deeper and deeper into the mountains, until he's left his job and life in Paris in order to camp out on glaciers.
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