Alpen (2011)

Alpen: Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. With Angeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris, Ariane Labed. A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.

“Whilst not without interest, I thought Alps was a bit of a mess of a film. Maybe the dark satirical humour was lost in translation somewhat because The Lobster and The Killing of a Sacred Deer were two of my favourite films of their respective years. The Favourite less so, so perhaps not just a language barrier. Dogtooth was a wonderful kind of weird, but still didnu0026#39;t hit the heights of Lobster and TKOASD. After seeing Alps Iu0026#39;m not so sure Iu0026#39;m a huge YL fan after all. What the hell was it about other than a strange cult where u0026#39;membersu0026#39; act out the recently deceased so as to help peopleu0026#39;s grieving process? I like weird, but maybe this was a step too far. In all honesty it was a bit dull. A strangely diasappointing 5 out of ten, but yet I canu0026#39;t wait to see what he does next now heu0026#39;s got a huge box office hit under his belt. I think he should cast Colin Farrell – itu0026#39;s bound to be great!”