Director Ludovic Bernard
Starring Ahmed Sylla, Alice Belaïdi, Kévin Razy
Rated M
Score 5/6

A young man from the suburbs with no mountaineering experience decides to climb Mt Everest to show a woman he’d do anything for her.

For those of you who might be interested L’ascension is the first fictional film to be shot at the Everest South Base Camp. It should also be noted that Though technically based on the true story of Nadir Dendoune, this is only in a very loose sense. Indeed, the main character’s name, age, ethnicity, relations and entire motivation for wanting to climb to the top of Mount Everest were changed for the film and director Ludovic Bernard never read Dendoune’s book Un tocard sur le toit du monde which the movie is supposedly based on.

L’ascension has been on my Netflix list for a little while waiting for me to get around to watching it, and this can easily define as a ‘Mum Movie’. Its been a little while since the last I have used the term Mum Movie, but basically a Mum Movie is the kind of movie that you can watch with your Mum without either of you feeling the least bit awkward. I just love the positivity of this movie. Okay sure it could be an example of don’t let your heart write cheques your butt might not be able to cash. Ahmed Sylla gave a great performance and I found his smile infectious. But what really steals the show is amazing countryside of Nepal.