“This is a movie with air in its lungs and love in its heart” ★★★★★ The Guardian

A striking, dazzling and melancholic film about a friendship between men who can’t talk about their feelings and about winning and losing at the great game of life.

In a secluded village in the mountains of Italy, an unlikely brotherhood forms between two young boys: Pietro, a boy from the city, and Bruno, who has only ever known life in the mountains. Over the years Bruno remains faithful to his home while Pietro aspires to greater heights. As decades pass and the two grow up, their paths ultimately lead them back to where they first met – and back to each other.

Set in the breathtaking Italian Alpine valley, Belgian filmmakers Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch bring us a deeply intelligent meditation on our capacity for love, and how it is shaped by the arbitrary, irreversible experiences of childhood.

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