‘Simon Of The Mountain’ Review: Federico Luis’ Critics’ Week Winner Is A Wholly Original Debut – Cannes Film Festival
deadline.comSimon has a strong twitch that drives him to shake his head, meaninglessly. He sometimes dribbles. The way he looks out at the world from under his brows, especially when people are talking to him, suggests he can’t quite keep up with what they’re saying.
When he meets a group of young people from a local daycare center for the intellectually disabled, he naturally falls in with them.
He befriends Pehuen Pedre (playing a version of himself) on the top of a mountain, where the group has walked and gotten into difficulties in high winds.
When they all manage to get down and back on the bus, Simon gets on board with them. This is where he belongs. Simon of the Mountain, Argentinian director Federico Luis’ moving, puzzling and wholly original debut feature, which won the top prize at Critics’ Week in Cannes, is a callback to Luis Bunuel’s 1965 classic Simon of the Desert.
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