As the eponymous Alpha says to her mother as she sits next to her prostrate uncle, charged by him with letting him finally die of an overdose, she is too young to deal with this. I sometimes felt ...

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. Ostensibly as keyed into its title ...

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Fearing that her daughter may have been infected, Alpha’s mother — who is a medical doctor committed to treating this blood-borne condition — rushes her to the clinic for tetanus shots and b ...

The newest film from the 'Titane' director is a gory period piece exploring a teenage girl’s coming of age during a deadly epidemic. By Jordan Mintzer Four years ago, French writer-director ...

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 film‘s official logline reads: “Alpha (Mélissa Boros) is a troubled 13 year old who lives with her single mom (Golshifteh Farahani). Their world collapses the day she returns from school ...

While considerably less violent and provocative than her Palme d’Or winner Titane, Alpha proved just as moving, with several of the castmembers drying their eyes as the house lights came up.

Take Julia Ducournau’s quietly flooring “Alpha,” the knockout follow-up to her Palme d’Or-winning “Titane.” While similar in many regards to her first two features, “Raw” and ...

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