A hospital nurse, a paramedic, a gymnast, and her coach form a secret group called “Alps,” offering to impersonate the recently deceased to help the bereaved through grief. As the nurse becomes deeply involved in her roles, the line between performance and identity begins to blur.

Yorgos Lanthimos followed the Oscar®-nominated success of Dogtooth with this disquieting wonder centered on a group offering counseling services to the recently bereaved. Doubling down on the earlier film’s ritualistic interrogations of role-play, Alps is a mordantly funny, absurdist provocation.