The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Three Peaks has a placid surface, but Zabeil uses abstraction — with edits that elide information or play tricks with spatial perception — to deepen a trite scenario.
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Italy, Germany · 2017
1h 34m
Director Jan Zabeil
Starring Alexander Fehling, Bérénice Bejo, Arian Montgomery
Genre Drama
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Aaron has found the woman of his life in his girlfriend Lea, but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family while Lea wrestles with conflicting loyalties to her son and her lover.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Three Peaks has a placid surface, but Zabeil uses abstraction — with edits that elide information or play tricks with spatial perception — to deepen a trite scenario.
The film ably plumbs the fears of a well-meaning man who tries his best to play by the rules of middle-aged courtship.
Superbly crafted, utterly gripping.
This is a powerful and beautifully shot film of love and survival.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Three Peaks is a dark little family drama, a ticking time bomb of a movie that is well made but never totally satisfies.
RogerEbert.com by Matt Zoller Seitz
Unfortunately, Three Peaks is so thinly conceived and executed that, for the most part, it fails to justify its existence as a stand-alone feature.
Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan
Three Peaks is not a devastating film like “Force Majeure” — another mountain-set foreign film about the exposure of fissures in a family dynamic — but it is a satisfying one. There’s just enough closure to its inconclusive climax to allow you to relax, even if it doesn’t give you much to terribly ponder during the drive home.
The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
This is a demanding and fitfully rewarding film which focuses minutely on the shifting relationships between its three protagonists.
From Germany, the deeply disturbing domestic tragedy Three Peaks is another film of understated but driving intensity starring Alexander Fehling, a.k.a. the Paul Newman of German cinema.
If the film didn’t rest on such composed performances, it might have conjured melodramatic disbelief, but the excellent Fehling and Montgomery play their pivotal figures with the requisite nuance.
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