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‘Simon Of The Mountain’ Review: Federico Luis’ Critics’ Week Winner Is A Wholly Original Debut – Cannes Film Festival


Federico Luis’ Simon of the Mountain is a callback to Luis Bunuel’s 1965 classic Simon of the Desert, yet a moving, puzzling and wholly original debut

Bunuel’s film, shot in Mexico, is an anti-clerical lampooning of a saintly ascetic, Simeon Stylites, who reputedly sat on top of a pillar in the desert for several years to show his devotion to God. How could any mother be so cruel as to badger, mock and accuse a young man — he is 22, even if his petulance and impetuosity are typically childish forms of resistance – who has to live with disability in a uniformly able world? When we see Simon on a home video as a little boy, he is romping with his father as Dad prompts his articulate toddler to spout lines from Hamlet.

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