As Cinema Tropical shares, Monica Sorelle’s Mountains (USA, 2023, 95 mins. In Haitian Creole, English, & Spanish with English Subtitles) opens in select theaters in the United States on August 16. The film stars Atibon Nazaire, Sheila Anozier, and Chris Renois.
Description: In Miami’s Little Haiti, Xavier makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife Esperance holds down two jobs to sustain their cozy household. Their routine is tested when their son Junior returns home after dropping out of college. Xavier and Esperance struggle to relate with Junior, who is no longer interested in speaking Creole with them and harbors ambitions of an artistic career path they do not understand. Xavier aspires to buy a more spacious house for his family, but still wakes up every morning, goes to work, and dismantles his neighborhood brick by brick. Yet even as construction vehicles rumble down the block, Little Haiti remains a vibrant community with traditions and rhythms distinctly its own.
The tender feature debut by Haitian American director Monica Sorelle is a multigenerational drama that deftly explores the relationships between immigrants and their children, the looming threat of gentrification, and the pursuit of the American dream.
Monica Sorelle is a Haitian American filmmaker and artist born & based in Miami. Her work explores alienation and displacement and preserves cultural traditions within Miami & the Caribbean with a focus on the African & Latin diasporas that reside there.
For more on the film, see https://www.musicboxfilms.com/film/mountains/
See more on the director at https://monicasorelle.com/
Also see https://www.cinematropical.com/
As Cinema Tropical shares, Monica Sorelle’s Mountains (USA, 2023, 95 mins. In Haitian Creole, English, & Spanish with English Subtitles) opens in select theaters in the United States on August 16. The film stars Atibon Nazaire, Sheila Anozier, and Chris Renois. Description: In Miami’s Little Haiti, Xavier makes a living as a demolition worker while his wife
