There are no luxuries and only the most essential comforts on offer at the remote Alpine refuge where “Forest High” is set: Hot water runs just a couple of hours a day, the soup served for dinner is thin and blandly nourishing, and don’t ask where to charge your phone, because you’ll be met with a polite but firm refusal. It’s a place for passing hikers to rest, not to vacation — though for the women who run the place, across different seasons and weathers, it’s somewhere to stay and hit pause on life, and perhaps to finally hear yourself in the silence. Manon Coubia‘s gorgeous, whispering first feature
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