Alpis
Alps
Yorgos Lanthimos
Edition: 2012
Sections: Emerging Cinema
Fiction, France, Greece 2011, 93', Hd, Stereo
Writer: Efthimis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Photography: Christos Voudouris
Sound: Leandros Ntounis
Montage: Yorgos Mavropsaridis
With: Aggeliki Papoulia,  Ariane Labed,  Aris Servetalis,  Johnny Vekris
Producer: Athina Rachel Tsangari, Yorgos Lanthimos
Production: Haos Film

Alps is the name of a company that its employees are taking the place of recently deceased in the way that their relatives cope easily with the sudden loss. In the film's primary logic, the characters turning into dead people is absurd. The absurdity and irrationality within human existence is the main concern of the auteur, Yorgos Lanthimos (director of Dogtooth) expressed in a brilliant manner. Bringing in mind on the theatre of the absurd, the characters keep rehearsing their parts building a metaphor based on humor and surprise. Characters argue using false logic to convince themselves and others as if little by little they are turning into Rhinokeros. However there is one member of the company desperate to maintain her individuality thus humanity. The athlete of rhythmic gymnastics as a current Berenger refuses to become Rhinoceros just because she wants to dance pop, signifing the existence of life. (Nina Veligradi)

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