Week 05 - Screening Report Journal

Briefly describe what your expectations for the film were? What did you already know about the film and from what source? What did you know about the country and historical period / style of its origin? Did you know anything about the director? What was the most important feature of the film you were looking for?
To be honest, I had no idea what to expect with Charles Vidor’s 1946 film Gilda, nor did I know anything about the film prior to taking this course. This was another film that I had not seen before, although I knew it was a film noir, so I expected it would focus on the character of Gilda (Rita Hayworth) portraying some sultry femme fatal, somehow ensnaring those around her in her web of deceit.
Gilda was released in 1946, following the end of World War 2 in 1945.

VIFF ASSIGNMENT

Please provide a general description of the film (director, title, date, and synopsis) in YOUR OWN WORDS.
Alps is Greek screenwriter and director Giorgos (Yorgos) Lathimos’s 2011 follow-up to his own 2009 feature film directorial debut, Dogtooth. Both films have been widely acclaimed and rightfully so, as both explore the lives of dark, compelling characters who are deeply immersed in psychologically horrifying situations.
Specifically, Alps is about a group of four people - a nurse (Aggeliki Papoulia), an ambulance medic, a young gymnast, and a coach - who, when someone dies, hire themselves out to the family or friends acting as a substitute for the deceased so that the family or friends can work through their loss. To this end, the medic suggests that the group is like the European Alps mountain range, which no other mountain range could ever replace.