Alps (Lanthimos, 2011): Prince Charles Cinema, 6pm
There is another screening of this film on July 18th and is part of the Yorgos Lanthimos season at the Prince Charleds Cinema. Full details here.
Time Out review:
In a gymnasium, a handful of odd people calling themselves ‘Alps’ hangs
out, connected by a fixation with the mundane details of the lives of
people at death’s door – including a promising teenage tennis player in
intensive care. Weird hobby? Exploitative enterprise? Search for
identity? Greek filmmaker Giorgos Lanthimos might be best suited to a
form that doesn’t really exist: the cinematic novella. Both 2009’s
‘Dogtooth’, about a perversely insulated nuclear family, and this
follow-up have much to recommend them. They cultivate queasy suspense
from banalities and unfurl with a dry-as-dust deadpan absurdism that
covers a multitude of sins. They have a powerful feeling for the ways in
which social and linguistic structures underwrite arbitrary but binding
– even reassuring – power games. And they have a juggling,
discombobulating way with intimate deceptions, sudden violence and
nuggets of Hollywood fandom.
Ben Walters
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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