Alps

Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2011)  is a film that certainly falls under the categorization of "experimental narrative" The narrative is made intentionally difficult to follow by throwing the viewer from one scene to the next with little to no context of how they got there. The narrative thread is obscured by regularly diverting attention to side plots that lead nowhere and one can never be sure whether the conversations we listen to are sincere or an act. Characters come and go without introduction. Even now I'm not sure how many main characters there were. Plot threads are grown and then abandoned just as they start to develop. The overall sense this movie gives is that of a knot that doesn't want to be unraveled. You can see the middle of many threads but not their ends or the way they connect.