A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.A group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 7 nominations
- Lamp Shop Owner
- (as Efthymis Filippou)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaEfthymis Filippou, screenwriter, had to step in as the "owner of the lighting shop" two days before shooting of the film started.
- Quotes
Stretcher-bearer: [speaking to the nurse] We're going to do a test. I'm going to use this object. If it doesn't change colour and stays white, then it automatically means you are competent and reliable, and can stay in our group. If it changes colour, there are two possibilities. First, it might turn blue. If it turns blue, then it automatically means that you are competent, but unreliable. Therefore? There's no therefore. It doesn't really matter if it turns blue. It's just something I said. The second and worst possible outcome is for this club to turn red. Which means automatically that you are too unreliable to and too incompetent to stay with us. Let's see.
[He stares at the club for a long time. Its color does not change. Suddenly, he hits her over the head with the club]
Stretcher-bearer: It changed. It turned red. I'm afraid you'll have to go.
- ConnectionsFeatured in At the Movies: Venice Film Festival 2011 (2011)
- SoundtracksPopcorn
Written by Gershon Kingsley
Performed by Marsheaux
Under license from Boune Co/D-Version Music Publishing Ltd & Undo Records
Absurd, genuinely designed, full of fits of laughters about the mimicking set pieces, the film presents itself in a more comprehensive elaboration than I expected, although initially, it takes some time to figure out the real occupation and motivation behind the self-dubbed "Alps"group (maybe Everest could be a more befitting name since its the highest mountain on the earth and its irreplaceability should be more cogent than Alps as long as height is concerned).
But the wacky "impersonating the deceased"groundwork is not potent enough to sustain the film into a genius employment, since the demanding of this type of service and its viability to perform its presumed obligation (to console the next-of-kins' grief) is a moot question here, and eventually a win-win condition has to yield to the conceptual willfulness (in the film it is the identity misconception, a spontaneously unsurprising aftermath). But performance-wise, leading actress Aggeliki Papoulia is a natural treasure, rendering the eccentric antics much more personal dedication (which also includes an equivocal default of the relationship between her and her father, another Alps' case or not?), I put her among my top 10 list of BEST LEADING ACTRESS line-up of 2011.
ALPS is a patchwork piece, nonetheless, Giorgos' one-of-a-kind singularity alone could be singled out as one of the most intriguing and cutting-edge film artist to bring some mondo gratification to cinema nerds.
- lasttimeisaw
- Jul 23, 2012
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Official site
- Languages
- Also known as
- Alpler
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- €97,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $16,057
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,628
- Jul 15, 2012
- Gross worldwide
- $233,222
- Runtime1 hour 33 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1