The Mountain — Official Trailer

source:   www.kinolorber.com

added: Fri, May 10th '19

From Rick Alverson, the writer-director of "Entertainment" and "The Comedy," comes a new subversive, thought-provoking drama about a 1950s lobotomist (played here by Jeff Goldblum) and his young assistant photographer (Tye Sheridan).

Check out the first official trailer for "The Mountain," an unsettling character study of a self-serving, snake-oil salesman-like physician (Goldblum) who travels across the country to perform antiquated lobotomies on young women who have been deemed socially rebellious or undesirable.

Tye Sheridan (from the upcoming "Dark Phoenix") plays the doctor's teen assistant who helps keep records of his patients by taking photographs of the women after they've been lobotomized. He starts to question the doctor's skills and his recently-debunked medical theories when he becomes smitten with a young mental patient who doesn't appear all that bad, played by Hannah Gross (from the Netflix series "Mindhunter").

The film is loosely inspired by the life of Dr. Walter Freeman, a Philadelphia physician who, despite his lack of experience in neuroscience, became one of the earliest and leading practitioners of lobotomy in the early 1940s.

"The Mountain" is scheduled to open theatrically on July 26th. Watch the trailer, above.