Alps (Alpeis) Reviews
October 28, 2019
As predictably intolerable as one might've anticipated...
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| Original Score: 0/4
November 16, 2017
Giorgos Lanthimos' "Alps" is a gimmick brought to life, a conceptual idea of a social situation filmed with automatons and containing but an illustration of a concept.
November 13, 2012
It's hard to see what, if anything, Lanthimos is saying about modern Greece. And without that clear focus, the film feels a bit off-piste.
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| Original Score: 3/5
November 12, 2012
What does it mean?
November 8, 2012
Lanthimos is such a distinctive film-maker and nothing he does is without interest - but this is a misfire.
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| Original Score: 2/5
November 8, 2012
The movie's morbidly funny once you get the hang of it, and climaxes deftly, but for too long Lanthimos feels like he's stalling for no especial purpose.
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| Original Score: 3/5
September 6, 2012
The movie contains some of the same elements that made [Dogtooth] so startling but they tend to float around rather than coalesce into a singular perspective.
September 6, 2012
Lanthimos' vision still compels and challenges, but Alps offers a big idea in place of a better movie.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
September 6, 2012
A film peculiar beyond all understanding, based on a premise that begs belief.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
August 23, 2012
A strange story. A strange world. And strange characters doing even stranger things.
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| Original Score: 2/4
February 22, 2012
An overly elaborate riddle
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| Original Score: 2/4
September 6, 2011
The cumulative force of the screenplay and Yorgos Mavropsaridis' editing is not as hypnotic as in Dogtooth, perhaps in part because those familiar with Lanthimos' m.o. will know what to expect.