#le otto montagne

[weardes]

Pietro | Le Otto Montagne

requested by @katesbridgerton

[anyzakki]

Luca Marinelli 🥹🫶🏻

[a-fnan]

The Eight Mountains (2022) dir. Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch

[pochiperpe90]

L' ALTRA MONTAGNA - Comune di Cupramontana, Teatro Concordia con Luca Marinelli

[lesbiandardevil]

le otto montagne - paolo cognetti

english version for my english oomfs <3

[mieczy-stiles]

No one in my life has seen the eight mountains and I don't know how to explain to them and the world the effect this movie has on me. I put on its soundtrack and get transported to some unearthly place. When I watch it, I feel in my bones a nostalgia, an unfathomable comfort, a spirituality that is so grounded in mundane

[mariwatchesmovies]

The Eight Mountains (2023) | Le otto montagne (2023) dir. Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch cine. Ruben Impens

[sunsetcurveauto]

"Maybe you're the one who needs to change your way of life."

"Me?" said Charles. "But Edwin, don't you remember who I am?" Yes, I remembered. He was the cowherd, the bricklayer, the man of the mountains, and above all he was his father's son...

Dead Boy Detectives x Stories - Charles as Bruno, The Eight Mountains (Le Otto Montagne)

@deadboyween day 14 - AU

@spacegirlsgang did edwins version here!

[seanchaidh7]

Nicky getting all blushy watching his husband Joe be the mountain man

[weardes]

homoerotic cow milking > literally anything else

[batterknowsbetter]

[youssefguedira]

luca marinelli and alessandro borghi in le otto montagne (2022) via picentfilms

[pochiperpe90]

Host: (asking a deep question) I like to think that you could give two different answers to this question.

L: You would like (pretends to move on to the audience's questions)

A: You would...like. This is (the question) for you. You have to start.

L: No, when you see me hesitant, it means...

A: Okay, but I have just finished...

L: But why does someone, I mean, there is a process. The question comes, one thinks, goes and knocks on various doors...and nothing, there is no one xD

[filmap]

Le otto montagne / The Eight Mountains Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch. 2022

Nepal Village Nar 33500, Nepal See in map

See in imdb

[mieczy-stiles]

The thing about Luca is that. And I say this as a writer, I suppose, but also as a queer person, that he exudes a certain feeling of safety, and comfort. Like, to have him play something will mean he's going to give you his everything. No matter the character, you'll see a sincerity that isn't just the product of the script, or the demand of it, but also the mind of the actor.

To know that a person of his calibre is out there playing queer characters so effortlessly, and without a doubt in their mind, without any prejudice blinding his artistic choices and who he is as a person, it's obviously a ray of hope, but it is also, then, a kind of trust, even if it is just parasocial in many ways.

I know if it's Luca playing a certain queer character - regardless of what happens to them in the script, that is if the script is stupid and insincere to the queer perspective in certain ways - I'd still easily trust him to do justice to the queer experience, for how sincerely he plays everything.

The whole every-character-of-his having a underlying homoerotic quality to them is all fun and cool and great and beautiful, but also, it's so fucking refreshing

It's been decades of asking for the correct representation in media, it's been years and years of queerbaiting and, if not that, just general lack of care

I've been accustomed to just wanting some of my favourite characters to be gay. Just thinking and wishing and hoping that someone someday will let them reach the full scope of their personality, let them have the right sort of ending, see first the fabric of their person, and not just the thread of their sexuality, and maybe then write the script. There have been all sorts of emotions, and so to find now a person who is doing just that? It's pure beauty.

For a while now it's been changing, more and more shows and films are becoming inclusive and accepting and understanding of the queer gaze, and it's so beautiful that Luca contributes to it with his whole heart, and has been for a long while.

Many must remember how it used to get with artists and makers always denying or trying to tip toe around the obvious queerbait, or shying away from the conversations that involved that queer perspective, or outright rejecting the very idea- it happens still - but then you see the likes of Luca and Marwan being comfortable in each other's company and also about the love they shared on screen (especially, i think, it begs to say, with them being men), talking happily about their characters, making playlists for them, recommending poems for them

A lot many actors now are open to these conversations, a lot of them now talk about it with nuance and care, with just the right words, and though it's in no way any less a contribution to the conversation, or any less genuine, but again, there is something to be said about the ease Luca shows.

Again, as I said before.. it feels safe, with him.

In a lot of his interviews, he doesn't bat an eye before saying things like - I was lucky to have him as my husband. And he means it, you can tell that by the smile on his face. When people are focusing on the movies' objective and the friendships in it, he easily goes and says it's not only the friendship, but also the love.

In another of his interviews, there was once this question about Roberta, about if he knew what was demanded from him and how he prepared for a transsexual character. I remember it because I was almost sure I'll be hearing some generic answer like I studied trans people for this role and this that blah blah, something ignorant, basically. I was braced for it. But he just said. (And he was talking in english, and all that he was trying to say was conveyed more through his face and gestures, it was super cute actually) - I read the script, and I just felt something. I didn't think about playing a transsexual, but a woman, with a friend. It was important for me to show the love she had for him. So. I just played a woman helping out a friend :)

And I was like ?? wait that's? That's all? You're not going to go deep into the character's psyche and the great moral upstanding you must be feeling for doing a role like this? You're not going to talk about how you "prepared" for this role or how it was "different" for you?

I was so used to people doing that, his simple answer took me by surprise.

and that's what's so refreshing, so comforting.

There's no hesitation in him, no prejudice or preconceived notions or activism, even, compelling his choices and words.

It's just him, plain and simple.

He's committed to his art in a way that people rarely are. Especially in media, where even big companies and huge hollywood stars often fail you.

I wish more people in this world were like him. So gently open in his ways, so effortless in his understanding and acceptance that it becomes intrinsic to him.

He's one of the few people, I would say, who are an artist not just by work, but also by nature.

[incidentale]

Alessandro Borghi & Luca Marinelli in conversation after the showing of 'Le Otto Montagne' @ Il Cinema in Piazza, July 4th, 2024