Good Morning, World

Unlike our beloved Luca Marinelli there don't sleep on this -- Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch's damn-near-masterpiece The Eight Mountains is out on blu-ray today thanks to Janus Contemporaries and Criterion -- you can pick it up on Amazon for a measly 15 dollars! Fifteen dollars for the best film about friendship you'll see this year, or have perhaps seen in many years. Split into two sections -- childhood and adulthood -- it follows two boys who grow up into two men (played by Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi) and whose relationship shifts with the snow on the mountains surrounding them. It's absolute gorgeousness. Here is my review of this movie. It's also streaming on Criterion Channel right now, so basically just watch the damn thing! It's one of 2023's greats.