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FILM COMMENT SELECTS 2012: Critic's Notebook

FILM COMMENT SELECTS 2012: Critic's Notebook by Vadim Rizov

Alps begins with a rhythmic gymnast (Ariane Lebed) facing off against her coach (Johnny Berkis). She wants Euro-trashy club music to soundtrack her ribbon-twirling; he insists on the deadly backing of Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana” (its opening movement, "O Fortuna," is a staple of movie trailers). The bulky trainer threatens to break her arm the next time he questions her musical judgment. "You aren't ready for pop," he tonelessly declares.

Is writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos ready for pop? [ Listen to our podcast .] Alps , his follow-up to the extreme dark comedy of 2009's Dogtooth , shares several quasi-joke touchstones with its predecessor: violence against women, incest and psychological terrorization, all committed with blank disaffection. Both films take place in a budgetary universe far from Hollywood, but that