US EditionAlpha Review: Titane Director Julia Ducournau's Latest Is Undercooked and Asinine
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The director, who won the Palm de Oro with 'Titane', has polarized the criticism with this approach from the genre to the disease that becomes in history about the duel and love Festival de Cannes - La Cañada Real vindicates herself in Cannes with 'City without sleep': "Being at the center of world cinema makes it be seen" "I know that my film is not perfect. It is even said that it is monstrous." Julia Ducournau said that phrase when she picked…
Alpha review: Titane director Julia Ducournau's latest is undercooked and asinine
‘A’ is for Alpha. Sadly, it also stands for ‘Asinine’, as far as this Julia Ducournau movie is concerned.The French director behind the brilliant Raw and the shocking Titane, which won Cannes’ Palme d’Or in 2021, certainly hasn’t lost any of her desire to provoke with this third film of her career.But despite some startling visuals and performances, especially by Tahar Rahim, this latest body horror feels undercooked, with its conceit never full…
‘Alpha’ Review: ‘Titane’ Director Julia Ducournau Adopts a More Grounded Form of Body Horror for This Dour and Dismal AIDS Allegory
Cannes: All credit to a newly-minted Palme d'Or-winner for having the courage to step out of their comfort zone, but "Alpha" is an insufferable misfire.
Cannes Review: Alpha is a Half-Baked Misstep for Julia Ducournau
Julia Ducournau has turned 180 degrees since Titane, the gritty and bizarre thriller that Spike Lee’s Cannes jury awarded the Palme d’Or in 2021. There’s no doubt that all eyes are on her newest, Alpha, in a way they weren’t on Titane after Raw. Her first and most horrific film by a landslide (too much to ever gain a wide audience) was a cannibal movie about a teen girl starting veterinary school. Here, no bodies are eaten or impregnated by a fi…
Julia Ducournau divides criticism until it becomes the great controversy of the Festival so far. With "Alpha", the director of "Titane" aspires to take away her second Palm de Oro de Cannes 2025.
4 years after Titane and his revolutionary Palme d'or, Julia Ducournau returns to the Croisette with Alpha. The first reviews of this much-awaited third feature film are there. This is the challenge of many artists who make a particularly frustrating entrance on the front of the stage with a striking work: how to keep [...]
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