Alps (2011)

"Alps" is the Yorgos Lanthimos drama about a group who impersonate the recently deceased to help grieving families cope with loss. The film's tone stays deliberately flat and clinical, even when it turns intimate. Ariane Labed anchors that strangeness with a performance that bares real physical vulnerability. Her undress feels handled with the same eerie precision as everything else in the story. Three scenes on the site catch her nude and exposed inside this quietly unsettling world. Each clip offers a rare crack in the film's cold, controlled surface.