Film Releases. "Alpha" by Julia Ducournau: a Film About the Intimate Trauma of the Aids Epidemic

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Pandemic tragedy, family drama or uchronic fantasy, Julia Ducournau does not choose and sign with Alpha an ambitious, radical and moving film. It is probably at the very beginning of the 1990s, during a party rocked by the trip-hop of Portishead that the 13-year-old Alpha (Mélissa Boros) is tattooed with a "A" tattoo. When her mother, doctor (Golshifteh [...] This article Alpha, a film by Julia Ducournau appeared first on Rolling Stone.

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Julia Ducournau made a rare gesture with Alpha this Wednesday: making cinema a repairing funerary ritual.

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THE LIST OF THE MATINAL Two pieces of Cannois choice around families are on display this week. After having divided the criticism on the Croisette, Julia Ducournau leaves to assault the theaters with Alpha, a film as intense as it is spectacular around a tragic epidemic that comes to tear up a tensioned trio. Part with the Grand Prix of the last Cannes Festival and served by three magnificent actors, Joachim Trier, touches the heart with sentime…

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Four years after «Titane», the director returns with this story in which a young girl grows up with a drug addict uncle and a mother doctor, in the fight against a pandemic. Unappreciated in Cannes, a fascinating filmAfter admiring the boldness and consistency of her cannibal tale Grave (2016), we had frankly hated the palmate Titane (2021), a sort of rush of ultra-aggressive woke theory and did you see. What to expect from the third feature fil…

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In "Alpha", with an unrecognizable Tahar Rahim, the director tells a world where a strange virus strikes and metamorphoses a family.