Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
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.