Yorgos Lanthimos Retrospective
ALPS
Friday, July 5th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
An oddball group of four people (made up of two hospital
employees, a gymnast, and her coach) form a secret society that sets out to
ease the grieving process for those whose loved ones have died. For a fee they
will act the part of the missing family member, learning their hobbies and
eccentricities in order to help the customer accept their loss. As methadone is
to heroin addiction, so are the Alps, as they call themselves, to the mourning
process. But when the nurse known as Monte Rosa begins to attach too deeply to
her subjects, their project spirals out of control into violence and confusion.
Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at the Venice Film
Festival, Alps is a stunningly original follow-up to director Yorgos Lanthimos' (Poor Things, The Favourite) Oscar-nominated debut, Dogtooth (2009), further establishing
him as one of the most talented and provocative filmmakers working today. (Greece, 2011, 93 mins, Greek with English
subtitles | Dir. Yorgos Lathinmos)
