Alps

Another very weird film (see the previous one by the director, Dogtooth), but this time, unfortunately, in an utterly uninteresting way. (07/06/2013)

Alps est probablement le film le moins convivial de Yórgos Lánthimos et il m'a fallu un certain temps pour entrer dans l'intrigue. Les nombreuses scènes étranges, le comportement bizarre de tous les personnages et les relations peu claires rendent le film au mieux déroutant. Une fois de plus, je ne peux m'empêcher d'apprécier et de louer l'originalité et l'imagination uniques. (29/04/2019)

Yorgos Lanthimos certainly brings a certain refreshment to world cinema with his work. His films by no means suffer from a lack of originality, but they sometimes find their way to the viewer in a rather convoluted way. That's exactly how I feel about Alps. The theme is very novel, inviting us to think about how we actually live, and what is important to us... The reporting itself, however, did not quite sit right with me. Maybe because for a long time I was unable to understand what it was all about. I was also quite irritated by the machine-learned dialogue when trying to identify with a recently deceased person. I'm leaning toward three stars for the film’s imaginative nature, although I had originally intended to only give two. (55%) (26/05/2020)