Cinematographer Shai Goldman (who also shot the visual masterpiece Foxtrot ) uses a desaturated palette of beiges, grays, and institutional greens. The “mountains and hills” of the title are always visible on the horizon—distant, unreachable, mocking. This visual metaphor is key: happiness, like the mountain range, is something the characters see but cannot touch.
Cinematographer Shai Goldman (who also shot the visual masterpiece Foxtrot ) uses a desaturated palette of beiges, grays, and institutional greens. The “mountains and hills” of the title are always visible on the horizon—distant, unreachable, mocking. This visual metaphor is key: happiness, like the mountain range, is something the characters see but cannot touch.
