Synopsis
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
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Cast
- Éric Herson-MacarelOld Habu (voice)
- Damien BoisseauFukamichi (voice)
- Elisabeth VenturaRyoko (voice)
- Lazare Herson-MacarelYoung Habu (voice)
- Kylian RehlingerKishi (voice)
- François DunoyerAng Tsering (voice)
- Philippe VincentChief Editor (voice)
- Luc BernardIto (voice)
- Marc ArnaudHase (voice)
- Jérôme KeenOld Inoué (voice)
Recommendations
- 100
Observer
One of the truly great animated films this year, one that now places Imbert alongside fellow countrymen Jérémy Clapin (I Lost My Body) and Rémi Chayé (Calamity) as part of a new generation of French animation talent that is delivering high quality animated projects in both story and style. - 91
The Playlist
What Imbert has done here, some years down the line, may solidify The Summit of the Gods, a work of fiction, as one of the greatest Everest films ever made. If nothing else it’s the Everest film that respects the mountain best. - 86
Paste Magazine
The Summit of the Gods’ complex storytelling and convincingly lovely vistas make its philosophical case well: Whether you’re risking it all to get to a peak, to get to the bottom of a mystery, or to create a painstaking piece of animation, you’re lucky enough to have something you love. - 80
Los Angeles Times
The film’s beautifully painted mountains are particularly striking, and the climbing sequences are among its standouts. Live-action has nothing on the way these scenes convey both the majestic scale of the peaks and the technical skill necessary to attempt these summits (as well as the physical toll involved). - 80
IGN
The Summit of the Gods is a standout tale in both story and animation technique. - 75
RogerEbert.com
It’s in the climbing sequences that the movie’s animation is at its most imaginative, creating effects both exhilarating and harrowing. - 75
IndieWire
It’s here, in these more high-altitude and less high-minded passages that “The Summit of the Gods” reaches the peak of its power, as the lush 2D animation indulges in the kind of ecstatically true vistas that live action would never allow, while Amine Bouhafa’s gorgeous and beguiling score makes every step feel like a spiritual proposition before exploding into an avalanche of synths. - 70
The New York Times
On limited terms — capturing the physicality of mountain climbing within the ethereal medium of animation — The Summit of the Gods is distinctive.
