Gabriel and the Mountain

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Gabriel and the Mountain

2018,

2h 15m,

Drama/

Adventure

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Before heading to America to enter a prestigious university, a man decides to backpack around the world for a year. After 10 months on the road, he arrives in Kenya.

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Ella Taylor

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Jun 14, 2018

Barbosa tracks the feverish ups and downs of his friend's journey through his charming, maddening character.

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Jordan Hoffman

Village Voice

Jun 14, 2018

Outstanding

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

Jun 13, 2018

A perceptive and poetic hybrid of documentary and fiction. It both captures and gently critiques Gabriel's free-spirited, adventurous sensibility.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Dec 10, 2020

Gabriel and the Mountain, in some ways, exists to puncture the bourgeois fantasy of traveling without being a tourist.

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Oct 15, 2020

Gabriel and the Mountain is a warts-and-all equivalent, appealing in its scenic attractions but cautionary in its psychological ones...

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Dennis Schwartz

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Nov 26, 2018

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It tells the tragic true story of a young Brazilian backpacker.

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Albus S

Nov 27, 2018

Between a 6/10 and 7/10, this ends up being a perceptive and poetic hybrid of documentary and fiction. It both captures and gently critiques Gabriel's free-spirited, adventurous sensibility.

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Mar 20, 2018

Terrible. Horrible character. Wish he died in the first chapter. Pointless film and what must be an embarrassing tribute to a dead man and his family.

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Finn W

Dec 5, 2017

By using the same locations that the real-life Gabriel visited in his travels as well as people who met him along his way playing themselves, Felipe Barbosa creates a profoundly moving character study that blurs the line between reality and fiction to near perfection.

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Synopsis

Before heading to America to enter a prestigious university, a man decides to backpack around the world for a year. After 10 months on the road, he arrives in Kenya.

Director: Fellipe Barbosa
Producer: Rodrigo Letier, Roberto Berliner, Clara Linhart, Yohann Cornu
Screenwriter: Fellipe Barbosa, Lucas Paraizo, Kirill Mikhanovsky
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: TV Zero, arte France Cinéma, Damned Films, Canal Brasil
Genre: Drama, Adventure
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 15, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 16, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $14.4K
Runtime: 2h 15m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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