Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos had his big breakthrough in 2009 with Dogtooth, winning an award in Cannes and getting nominated for a foreign-language Academy Award. His new film, Alps, once more skillfully scripted by Lanthimos and Efthymis Filippopu, deals with a group of people who offer to impersonate real, dead people in order for their loved ones to interact with them. The robot-like characters with their eerily irrational patterns of behaviour and the absurd humour (the leader of the group lets the members choose a name each from the French Alps - picking Mont Bland for himself, since it is the highest one!) from Dogtooth are back, just as fascinating this time around. But where Dogtooth was a film about breaking free of fiction, the people in Alps instead look for the meaning of life in it.