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THE CLIMB
\nSony Pictures Classics
\nReviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten
\nDirector: Michael Angelo Covino
\nScreenwriter: Michael Angelo Covino, Kyle Marvin
\nCast: Kyle Marvin, Michael Angelo Covino, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam, George Wendt, Judith Godreche
\nScreened at: Sony, NYC, 11\/4\/19
\nOpens: July 17, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Cole Porter so eloquently composed,<\/p>\n

\u201cFriendship, friendship,
\nJust a perfect blendship,
\nWhen other friendships have been forgot,
\nOurs will still be hot.\u201d<\/p>\n

We like to think that our childhood friendships would last forever, but while the Four Aces note \u201cthose wedding bells are breaking up those old friends of mine,\u201d adultery could have the same effect. At least that\u2019s what we learn from Michael Angelo Covino, who directs and co-stars in \u201cThe Climb,\u201d which he wrote with Kyle Marvin. And wouldn\u2019t you know that the director and both writers are in the starring roles as well?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Climb\u201d is a shaggy dog story, the kind of picture that true lovers of small indies adore. Avoiding a formulaic, tightly constructed tale of bromance (a close but nonsexual partnership of two or more men, one that goes beyond mere friendship,) director Covino expands on his eight-minute Sundance short to unfold the off-again, on-again lifelong pal concept, winding up by showing that no matter high the hills that these two guys climb on their bikes, notwithstanding the threats to their bond that would surely tear most people\u2019s friendship asunder, they wind up where they started. Have they changed during six or more years in which the events take place? Yes, but not all that much.<\/p>\n

Toying with a series of vignettes as though each scene were parts of continuing shorts that takes place a day, a week a month, or half a dozen years apart, Covino opens his movie as two bikers traverse the beautiful scenery of the South of France, the huffing and puffing symbolizing, perhaps, that life has its, well, huffs and its puffs, its highs and its lows. The principals of the movie use their own names, which should signal that this could well be a biopic of two characters whose diverse personalities complete each other. Kyle (Kyle Marvin) is a shlubby fellow, the kind that women like to marry because, as one woman states, they \u201cwill always be there.\u201d But Mike (Michael Angelo Covino) is a daredevil, a risk-taking ladies\u2019 man, the sort that honorable women would love for a fling but would steer clear of marrying. But Mike is something more, something that\u2019s not at all nice. He interferes with his pal\u2019s love life, doing his best to break up Kyle\u2019s liaisons as though fearing that he would lose his bosom buddy to a woman.<\/p>\n

Much of the humor is deadpan, dry, the kind of jocularity that some people cannot understand (\u201cHuh, you think that\u2019s funny\u201d?) but others practice regularly as though to test the intelligence of their listeners. Mike breaks up Kyle\u2019s engagement to Ava (Judith Godreche), who insists that she loves Kyle even while Mike is kissing her. Conveniently she dies, leaving Mike to challenge and try to disrupt Kyle\u2019s engagement to Marissa (Gayle Rankin). He has the audacity, though with a secret plan, to tear into Kyle once again: While they bike in France, he blurts out \u201cI slept with Ava.\u201d Later, during Kyle\u2019s courtship with Marissa, he announces, \u201cI slept with Marissa.\u201d You usually do not find these admissions freely made, but of course Mike opts for the statements with his own narcissistic glee.<\/p>\n

Covino and Marvin, real-life best friends with more than enough artistry to evoke a story that seems only partially fictionalized, but do not dominate the entire movie. We don\u2019t know much about Ava who died soon enough, but Marissa has a sturdy segment focused on her character\u2014a strong woman who pushes the mostly passive Kyle to be a better man (he loves her for that) and who declares her love for Kyle right up to a riotous wedding scene turns physical. An extended look at a family Thanksgiving feast but one without a turkey (the Golden Retriever manages to grab and eat the whole bird, leaving a digested turkey on the floor) highlights Mike\u2019s alcoholism. In one scene he topples the Christmas tree but Sara Shaw\u2019s excellent editing of Zach Kuperstein\u2019s lensing highlights moments of such high drama by cutting away quickly, leaving us in the audience to figure out what happens seconds later, and even to wonder how much time has passed between each vignette.<\/p>\n

The writer-director shares with his co-writer a love for French songs as the soundtrack is filled with big, bold music that might remind you of the wit and wisdom of Jacques Brel. Marriages come and go, but friendships like those of Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino are for life.<\/p>\n

98 minutes. \u00a9 2020 by Harvey Karten, Member, New York Film Critics Online<\/p>\n

Story \u2013 B+
\nActing \u2013 A-
\nTechnical \u2013 B+
\nOverall \u2013 B+<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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