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Julia Ducournau won the Palme d'Or with her transgressive body horror Titane but the only thing tortured in Alpha is its AIDS ...
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.
Once again, French director Julia Ducournau takes us into ... crunching erotic energy – she returns to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Alpha, a film just as likely as Titane to divide ...
The director of "Raw" and "Titane" gives a knock-out follow-up to her Palm d'Or winner that defies expectations.
Four years after winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducournau is back on the Croisette, debuting her latest Cannes Film Festival Competition entry Alpha. Inside the Palais late Monday ...
The Cannes crowd gave Ducournau and her team enthusiastic applause ... and provocative than her Palme d’Or winner Titane, Alpha proved just as moving, with several of the castmembers drying ...
After winning the Palme d'Or for the shocking Titane, French director Julia Ducournau is back at Cannes with another nightmarishly weird film – but it's an unsatisfying watch.
“Titane” director Julia Ducournau made a triumphant ... But the premiere of “Alpha” faced a brief interruption when, about an hour into the film’s runtime, attendees in the balcony ...
Director Julia Ducournau’s Alpha is incredibly strange ... making for arguably the worst movie in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Alpha isn’t so much scary or unnerving ...
Julia Ducournau returns to Cannes with a muddled meditation on the AIDS pandemic, squandering the talents of Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim.
The coming-of-age drama follows a teenager called Alpha who becomes infected with a bloodborne disease after sharing a needle ...
By Jordan Mintzer Four years ago, French writer-director Julia Ducournau came ... down on a bedroom) that Alpha has been experiencing since the start of the film. Without warning we’re jumping ...