Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond – until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée and then tells him about it amidst a rigorous bicycle ride in the French Alps. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak and rage. It is also the story of real-life best friends [the film’s director and producer] who turn their profound connection into a rich, humane and frequently uproarious film about the boundaries (or lack thereof) in all close friendships. Imbuing traditional comic set-pieces – family Christmas, disastrous bachelor party, interrupted wedding – with genuine cinematic flair, The Climb expertly shifts gears between full-blooded slapstick and wince-inducing studies of romantic and fraternal relationships, which sometimes crash but always seem to find the friends getting back in the saddle.
March Split/Screen films are curated by MNFF. We are unable to offer VTIFF members free passes or discounts for this month. If you will be viewing this month’s film through one of your apps, please remember that you need to use the Middlebury Roku, Firestick and Apple TV apps, not the VTIFF ones.
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