NEW YORK – “The Climb” is a portrait of a male friendship told in single-shot chapters with cataclysmic happenings — marriage, death, children — in between.
With each lurch forward, we have to get our bearings for where Mike (Michael Angelo Covino) and Kyle (Kyle Marvin) are now. Are they still friends?
Have either of them matured at all? Over the past two years, you could do similar check-ins with Covino and Marvin — longtime friends who wrote the film together with Covino making his directorial debut.
Take one. It's May 2019. They're flying high along the French Riviera, basking in the reception for “The Climb.” It's hailed as a breakthrough at the Cannes Film Festival for both Mike and Kyle, and celebrated as a fresh, innovative spin on.
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