The Climb
Film poster
Directed byLudovic Bernard
Written byLudovic Bernard
Nadir Dendoune
Olivier Ducray
Based onUn tocard sur le toit du monde
by Nadir Dendoune
Produced byLaurence Lascary
StarringAhmed Sylla
Alice Belaïdi
CinematographyYannick Ressigeac
Edited byRomain Rioult
Music byLucien Papalu, Laurent Sauvagnac
Production
companies
France 2 Cinéma
DACP
Mars Films
Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
Distributed byMars Distribution
Release dates
  • 18 February 2017 (2017-02-18) (Festival du Film de Comédie de L'Alpe d'Huez)
  • 25 January 2017 (2017-01-25)
Running time
103 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$6.2 million [1]
Box office$8.4 million [2]

The Climb (French: L'Ascension) is a 2017 French adventure comedy film directed by Ludovic Bernard which tells the real-life story of Nadir Dendoune.[3]

Plot

Samy Diakhaté is a young man of Senegalese origin from the Cité des 4000 in La Courneuve. Like many of his friends, he is unemployed but wants to get out of it. Since middle school, he has been in love with Nadia, an employee of the neighborhood supermarket. He tries to win her with his kindness, but she resists him, for fear of loving a frivolous boy who will disappoint her. Samy tells her that out of love for her, he would climb Mount Everest, but Nadia takes this for a joke. Samy, determined to impress Nadia, starts looking for funding for his trip to Nepal. Without having experience of mountaineering or even physical training, he throws himself into the adventure but quickly realizes his weaknesses and the colossal challenge he must face. Meanwhile, the news has spread through the suburbs and Paris like wildfire: the whole suburb, radio and press, is with Samy to cheer him on and watch his exploits hour by hour, while his mother is dying of anguish at losing her son.

Cast

Production

The movie was first introduced during the Festival du Film de Comédie de L'Alpe d'Huez.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "L\'Ascension (2017) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ↑ "The Climb".
  3. ↑ Brady, Tara (28 December 2017). "The Climb review: a big-hearted crowd-pleaser in the name of love". Irish Times. Retrieved 25 August 2018.


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