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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06/14/2018

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

06/14/2018

Outstanding

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A.O. Scott

New York Times

06/13/2018

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

12/10/2020

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

10/15/2020

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

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

11/26/2018

B

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

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Aristóteles B

@RT86624305 Mar 20

Era 2018 e eu começava a escalar montanhas inspirado pela história fascinante do Gabriel. Obrigado, meu amigo, nunca me senti tão vivo ao me conectar com pessoas e enfrentar desafios.

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Daniel G

@DanielGodoy 12/22/2022

I thought it was very thoughtful semi-documentary, made by a friend who really appreciated Gabriel. My wife thought it was slow and boring. Africa - except for the very high mountains, that scenery reminded me so much of Brazil and the culture not that different, that I wouldn't see the real reason to travel there.

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01/09/2020

A good true story of a person trying to find himself and help others.

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11/27/2018

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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03/20/2018

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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Fellipe Barbosa

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João Pedro Zappa

Gabriel Buchmann

Caroline Abras

Cristina

Alex Alembe

Self

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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)