The film premiered on 3 September 2011 in competition at the 68th Venice International Film Festival . Lee Marshall of '' Screen Daily '' started by comparing '' Alps '' to the director 's last film . He called it " a sort of '' Dogtooth 2 '' " , and wrote that " the cultured urban audiences turned on by the sheer kookiness of that film may feel a slight sense of déjà vu here . " On the film in its own right , Marshall wrote : " Hollywood might have fashioned a weepie or a thriller out of the same material - and there are echoes here of some of Hitchcock 's fascination with surrogates , from the Roger Thornhill/George Kaplan of '' North by Northwest '' to the Madeleine/Carlotta of '' Vertigo '' . But '' Alps '' is so intriguing because of what it refuses to explain . ... It 's also a film which manages to juggle absurdist comedy with bleak tragedy , a yearning desire for human warmth with outbreaks of sudden violence , all the while maintaining an impressive control of tone . "
68th Venice International Film Festival
68th Venice International Film Festival
Alps (film)