Alaska

However, the fascinating film does not start and the audience may even think that they are facing a boring movie but gradually the film disappears in you. This movie taught me that life is really like a carousel. Sometimes you are at the peak so you have to have fun and sometimes you are falling so you have to manage it. This movie is really about love. The actors in the film are very capable and the director's special style is clearly evident in the film. Alaska is a very good movie that is definitely worth watching

I'm not exactly sure what it is about this film that I like so much but It absolutely captured me and made me fall in love with both characters as much as they do with each other.

At first there was something somewhat unbelievable about their interaction but as the film goes on the magic of this connection is revealed through a tense story that takes us from Paris to Milan.

The acting, direction, production, and writing is brilliant and I think it truly succeeds in achieving that balance of thought, emotion, and entertainment that makes for good cinema.

This is probably one of those films I'll watch at least once a year. If you're into the style and genre, passing on it would be an injustice.

This movie has an slow story that bring us about the things that we have to achieve our happiness. Our life will face good and bad moments. We can find in Fausto (Elio Germano) and the pretty Nadine (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey) a couple that has a lot of problems trying to deal with each of the attitudes that they have. In every moment of the story, they are placed in different situations, none will find happiness, success or stability at the same time, so they have to face every moment. Trust and support is the problem for this couple. This Italian-french production will teach somethings that will improve our lives around our friends, family, Enjoy it!

This is a beautifully written, directed and acted romantic film. I'm surprised by the relatively little critics recognition. Yes it is, at times, over dramatised and not particularly original but it is over all fully enjoyable. In my opinion the quality of this film is mainly due to the sensational and charismatic Elio Germano. Reminiscent of a young Taxi Driver Robert De Niro, he is one of the best European actors of this generation.

Nadine is in Paris auditioning for a modelling agency. Unimpressed with the proceedings she goes out for a smoke and meets Fausto, an Italian waiter at the restaurant where the auditions are being held. Fausto invites her to see the most expensive room in the hotel, believing its current occupant to be out of town. When the guest returns and threatens to report the intrusion, Nadine steps in to protect the waiter from losing his job on her account and is manhandled by the man. Fausto beats him to a pulp, is apprehended and ends up in prison.

For two years in La Santé he writes to Nadine, who has promised she won't forget him, but Nadine doesn't respond or visit. On his release Nadine comes to meet him. In the intervening years she has become a successful model, learned some Italian and is based in Milan. The reunion doesn't go well. It all gets a bit violent and emotional.

A bit emotional (with the violence implied) kind of sums up the tone of Alaska, directed by Claudio Cupellini, who has also worked on the Gomorrah TV series. Fausto is a hothead, but Nadine sticks by him and fights with him constantly. She has plenty of reason to be upset as Fausto, finding it hard to find steady work in Milan, takes the money she has earned modelling to invest it in a business venture with a friend, a night-club called Alaska.

There's a strange kind of symmetry to the film, and it seems like trying to adhere to this structure ends up pushing the film into ever more desperate ways to maintain its balance. Nadine's employment is taken away also in a car accident that occurs during one of their explosive fights. Nadine, like Fausto, finds rehabilitation difficult after her accident, and likewise makes some poor career choices that result in the absurd twist of her also ending up in prison. Will Fausto support her through this in the way that she failed to do?

It's all very dramatic. And it's largely a very unpleasant film, its script riddled with profanities, about two people that you can't really ever sympathise with. It's hard to even recognise what kind of attraction they could have for each other, as they never really seem to hit it off and neither of them have any great qualities that would endear them to the viewer either. You can't help feeling that they get what they deserve really, which probably wasn't the intention of the filmmaker.