Alpis

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Movie
German title Alps
Original title Άλπεις / Alpis
Country of production Greece
original language Greek
Publishing year 2011
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Giorgos Lanthimos
script Giorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
production Yorgos Tsourgiannis , Athina Rachel Tsangari
camera Christos Voudouris
cut Yorgos Mavropsaridis
occupation

Alpis ( Greek Άλπεις "Alps", translit. "Alpeis") is a film drama by the Greek director Giorgos Lanthimos from 2011. Angeliki Papoulia and Ariane Labed play the main female roles . The film premiered on September 3, 2011 at the 68th Venice International Film Festival and was awarded the “Osella” for best screenplay . The film won in 2012 and the official competition prize for New Directions in Cinema ( for new directions in cinema ) on the Sydney Film Festival .

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Four Athenians take the place of deceased members of families who commissioned them to do so. In doing so, they encounter difficulties in integrating into the community.

production

Giorgos Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippou developed the film idea by referring to people who claim something that is made up, for example in the form of pranks on the phone or announcing their own death. The story took shape, requiring a setting that cinematically suited it. Lanthimos sees it as the complete opposite of his earlier film Dogtooth , which he says is "the story of a person trying to escape a fictional world." Alpis is about a person trying to get into a fictional world.

The film was produced by the Greek company Chaos Film , which previously produced Lanthimos' film Kinetta in 2005. The funding of the film budget was also supported by the Greek Film Center. The shooting began in October 2010. Some scenes have been added on the set and part of the dialogue was improvised by the actors.

reception

Screen Daily 's Lee Marshall compares "Alpis" to the director's last film. He calls it "a kind of Dogtooth 2" and writes that "the cultured urban audience that is confronted with the sheer audacity of this film can feel a slight déjà vu here ". Marshall wrote about the film itself: “Hollywood might have formed a melodrama or a thriller from the same material - and there is echo here of fascinating set pieces from Alfred Hitchcock's films, from Roger Thornhill / George Kaplan from The Invisible Third to Madeleine / Carlotta from Vertigo - From the realm of the dead , but Alpis is so fascinating because it refuses to explain ... It is also a film that manages to balance between an absurd comedy and a gloomy tragedy, a wistful wish to associate human warmth with outbursts of sudden violence while maintaining impressive control over mood. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ian Hayden Smith International Film Guide 2012 2012, ISBN 978-1-908215-01-7 , page 127. . Retrieved May 5, 2012.
  2. ↑ Venezia 68: Alpis (Alps) - Yorgos Lanthimos . In: labiennale.org . Venice Biennale . Archived from the original on March 23, 2012. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  3. ↑ Venice Film Festival: The Soul Has Got Cheap , Der Tagesspiegel, September 9, 2011
  4. ↑ a b Staff writer: Yorgos Lanthimos • Director . In: cineuropa.org . Cine Europe. September 3, 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  5. ↑ Joseph Proimakis: Lanthimos heads Film Center's new funding slate . In: Cineuropa . February 3, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  6. ↑ Eric Lavallee: Ariane Labed and Aggeliki Papoulia Like View From the 'Alps' . In: Ioncinema . October 1, 2010. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  7. ^ Lee Marshall: Alps . In: Screen Daily . September 3, 2011. Retrieved September 3, 2011.