Alverson 's fifth feature , '' The Mountain '' ( 2018 ) , premiered in competition at the 75th Venice International Film Festival . Set in early 1950 's America , the film stars Tye Sheridan , Jeff Goldblum , Hannah Gross , Udo Kier and Denis Lavant and is loosely based on the American neurologist Walter Freeman 's fall from grace after the procedure he invented , the lobotomy , came under scrutiny . Referring to the film as " anti-utopian " , Alverson has described it as a " counterweight " to the American " narrative of unlimited potential and boundless opportunity " in favor of an emphasis on the value of limitations
75th Venice International Film Festival
75th Venice International Film Festival
Rick Alverson