Alps

2011

1h 33m

Drama

List

75%

Tomatometer

48 Reviews

51%

Audience Score

1,000+ Ratings

Actors start a unique business where they impersonate deceased people to help their clients through the grieving process.

Read More

Read Less

Watch on Fandango at Home

Premiered Nov 01

Buy Now

Fandango at Home

Prime Video

Rent Alps on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Lanthimos is such a distinctive film-maker and nothing he does is without interest - but this is a misfire.

Rated: 2/5

Nov 8, 2012

Full Review

Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph (UK)

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.

Rated: 3/5

Nov 8, 2012

Full Review

Philip Concannon

Little White Lies

Requires multiple viewings to pick this one apart.

Rated: 4/5

Nov 8, 2012

Full Review

Taylor Baker

Drink in the Movies

Episode 21: Alps / Dogtooth / The Favourite - Yorgothon

Rated: 78/100

Sep 3, 2021

Full Review

David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

As predictably intolerable as one might've anticipated...

Rated: 0/4

Oct 28, 2019

Full Review

John Bleasdale

CineVue

The acting is excellent throughout, each performer managing to play up the comic aspects with a new definition of deadpan.

Rated: 4/5

May 30, 2019

Full Review

Read all reviews

elana k

This film's premise is so exciting so why did it have to be so dull at times? I understand this is part of Yorgos Lanthimos' style as a director but still, some scenes were utterly dull and could have been treated with more care. The long pauses and banal conversations should serve the narrative, not stall it or create a void which might otherwise have been filled with more encounters with the absurd. They could've jammed more action into the plot without taking away from the madness that resides in the mundane- the perplexing realism of non-reality that is characteristic of the worlds this director often creates. Alps arrives much earlier than the later successes in Lanthimos's career, first in Greece and then in the international film scene, but it hints at his burgeoning vision as an impressively original filmmaker. All in all, I found this film to be a success. It made me think and it made me feel and there was a cleverness to it that I really enjoyed. I left with the idea that "people pleasing will make you mad ".

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

05/05/24

Full Review

dave s

Despite the awkward subject matter, Yorgos Lanthimos' Alps is filled with pitch black humor. In the film, four individuals serve to ease the bereaved through the grieving process by impersonating the deceased loved ones. As one would expect from Lanthimos, it is an original idea that is filled with awkwardness and discomfort as he examines how we deal with loss. While the plot doesn't have much of a narrative arc to it, the whole thing remains bizarrely fascinating. Like most of his films, it is something that will be loved and appreciated by some and reviled by others. Watch it and pick a side.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

Full Review

john l

One thing you can count on with Lanthimos is a movie that's definitely different from all other directors. Compared to his others beginning with Dogtooth and continuing through The Lobster, Killing of a Sacred Deer, and The Favourite, this one is a low spot for him. It's decidedly the weakest among his feature films from Dogtooth onward. (I've not seen Kinetta.) The underlying story concept is unique, holding more promise than was realized. Acting is quite good. It's the disconnected and disjointed character stories in the screenplay that drag the movie down toward mediocrity. A script revision to tie the characters and their individual stories together better would have made this one a winner. All that said, had Hollywood attempted this plot concept, the result would have been an utterly abysmal disaster. Bottom line: it's an OK workmanlike film, but most certainly no masterpiece with some significant screenplay flaws. I'm looking forward to his Poor Things in a year or so anticipating it will be on par with The Favourite, Sacred Deer, and Lobster.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

Full Review

Fra B

Though with this second brilliant idea Lanthimos has at his disposal less practical solutions, with the help of what might be the best female interpretation of the decade by Papoulia, he manages to ask quite a lot of interesting questions about personality, interpretation and identity.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/29/21

Full Review

Liam D

this picture is weird and it's meant to be weird and so the charm comes from that with unique writing and directing.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

09/25/20

Full Review

Audience Member

A bleak film in the style of Dogtooth

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/22/23

Full Review

Read all reviews

Post a rating

Yorgos Lanthimos

Director

Aris Servetalis

Ambulance Man

Ariane Labed

Gymnast

Aggeliki Papoulia

Nurse

Stavros Psyllakis

Nurse's Father

Johnny Vekris

Coach

Show Less Cast & Crew

Show More Cast & Crew

67%

36%

Helen

74%

53%

Putty Hill

22%

28%

Elles

47%

38%

Hereafter

38%

48%

Restless

Discover more movies and TV shows.

View More

Critics Consensus: Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D Is Lukewarm

View more photos

Synopsis

Actors start a unique business where they impersonate deceased people to help their clients through the grieving process.

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Screenwriter: Efthymis Filippou, Yorgos Lanthimos
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Greek
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $8.6K
Runtime: 1h 33m

Most Popular at Home Now