Synopsis
Aaron invites his girlfriend Lea and her 8-year-old son Tristan on a trip to the mountains. What could be a starting point of a new life together, slowly turns into difficult territory as the three fight for their positions within the new family.
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Cast
- Alexander FehlingAaron
- Bérénice BejoLea
- Arian MontgomeryTristan
Recommendations
- 88
Observer
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. - 80
CineVue
This is a powerful and beautifully shot film of love and survival. - 80
Variety
Superbly crafted, utterly gripping. - 70
Screen Daily
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. - 70
The New York Times
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. - 63
Slant Magazine
The film ably plumbs the fears of a well-meaning man who tries his best to play by the rules of middle-aged courtship. - 63
Washington Post
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. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a demanding and fitfully rewarding film which focuses minutely on the shifting relationships between its three protagonists.
