Alpine Fire

Quiet, austere and slowly suffocating, it watches a closed world turn inward until tenderness and transgression become impossible to separate.

Directed by

Fredi M. Murer

Genres

Drama

Starring

Thomas Nock, Johanna Lier, Dorothea Moritz

Tagline

a story of love without bonds.

Overview

A year on an Alpine farm: an older couple have two children, Belli, who wanted to be a teacher, and the younger Franzi, deaf, and although he works like a man, child-like. Belli teaches him. In his work, he can become frustrated, so when he throws an expensive mower over a cliff in a fit of pique, his father banishes him to the outskirts of the farm, where he uses pubescent energy to break rocks and build walls and cairns. (It's the tradition of the father's family, called "The Irascibles" by neighbors, to spend puberty doing this.) Belli visits him and they begin sleeping together. By winter, the boy is back in the house and Belli is pregnant. Soon her parents must know.

How it feels

Melancholic, bleak, tense and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.

About

Isolation, family, coming-of-age, identity

Content

Strong sexual content. Mild violence and language. No gore.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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