'Le Otto Montagne' gets 10 mins applause at Cannes

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 19 - 'Le Otto Montagne' (The Eight Mountains), one of two Italian films competing for the Palme d'Or at Cannes, got 10 minutes of applause at the French Riviera film festival Thursday.
    Belgian directors Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen and leading actors Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi stood up and enjoyed the warm reception for their film.
    Critical response has been positive too with Variety calling the film, an adaptation of the novel by Paolo Cognetti, "a moving story, intimate and epic".
    The Guardian called it "rich, beautiful and inexpressibly sad".
    The British daily's critic Peter Bradley said: "A meditation on our capacity for love shapes this sweeping story of two friends, torn apart by family and life's journeys but bound by something deeper." Mario Martone also competes at Cannes this year with 'Nostalgia', a film that follows a man who returns to his old neighborhood in Naples after a 40-year absence. (ANSA).