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
Elio Germano
Fausto
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey
Nadine
Valerio Binasco
Sandro
Paolo Pierobon
Marco
Elena Radonicich
Francesca
Antoine Oppenheim
Nicholas
Pino Colizzi
Alfredo Wiel
Marco D'Amore
Toni
Roschdy Zem
Benoit
Anastasia Vinogradova
Eva
Xavier Lemaître
Maître Hotel Parigi
Stefano Fregni
Emilio
Rossana Mortara
Assistente responsabile casting
Orietta Notari
Cameriera albergo Wiel
Désirée Giorgetti
Agente immobiliare
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.
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