German writer/director, Jan Zabiel likely is not a name that rings a bell with most film buffs, but there’s a chance that could change soon, given the actors attached to the former cinematographer’s upcoming and critically acclaimed new project. Starring Academy Award nominee Bérénice Bejo (“The Artist,” “The Past”) and Alexander Fehling (“Homeland,” “Inglorious Basterds”), “Three Peaks,” (sorry, no, it is not a sequel to “Twin Peaks: The Return”) which is being hailed as a tensely dramatic family vacation thriller.
Léa (Bérénice Bejo), a Frenchwoman, has recently become involved with a German man named Aaron (Fehling), however her child Tristan (Arian Montgomery) pines for her to reconcile with his American father. When the trio takes a trip to the Southern Alps on Italy’s mountainside. The situation escalates, and young Tristan goes missing. Ominous apprehension lurking all abound; Zabiel’s film shifts from a complex domestic conflict into a desperate survival story.
Here is the movie’s official synopsis:
Fatherhood, suspicion, and resentment are a combustible mix in Jan Zabeil’s sophomore feature. German Aaron (Alexander Fehling) and his French girlfriend Léa (Bérénice Bejo) are in a new relationship, but her young son Tristan (newcomer Arian Montgomery) still imagines his mother reconciling with his American father. Their idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites takes a dark turn as Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, while Léa wrestles with conflicting loyalties. The tug of war between Aaron and Tristan intensifies when the boy disappears into the mountains. As the family drama shifts into survival film, it’s unclear who’s in the most danger. THREE PEAKS chips away at our darkest nightmares to reveal the everyday anxieties on which they feed.
Readers are probably familiar with Ms. Bejo’s talent, but Alexander Fehling is also no acting slouch. You may remember his incredibly human and frightfully tense performance as Sgt. Wilhelm from the La Louisiane scene in Chapter 4 of Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” and you may remember his newborn son, Maximillian. Amusingly enough, he also appears alongside August Diehl (who played the Nazi Major who got all of Wilhem’s friend’s killed, down in that bar) in Terrence Malick’s upcoming “A Hidden Life,” which we imagine many are anticipating a wee bit.
“Three Peaks,” looks to be quite the interesting experimental thriller and it will be released by Greenwich Entertainment on 6/28, at the IFC Center in New York City, as well as select theaters this July, in Los Angeles.
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