Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.
Acting
Elio Germano and Bergès-Frisbey's raw, fragile chemistry
Cinematography
Paris as cold, glittering cage of unfulfilled dreams

Director
Claudio Cupellini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Alaska' refers to a distant, frozen ideal—Cupellini chose it to represent love as an unreachable, inhospitable place.
This film captures mid-2010s European cinema's obsession with millennial precarity and the death of romantic idealism.