Writer and director Julia Ducournau is known for her shocking examinations of family, gender, and trying to exist in the world as an outsider. Her first two features Raw and Titane stunned audiences with her unflinching and gnarly portrayals of young women rebelling against societal norms. Now, she’s getting ready to shock us again with her third feature film, Alpha, which is coming this year from Neon.
In the new film, “Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.”
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Alpha is set during the 1980s and 1990s, when a fictional epidemic not unlike AIDS is ravaging the world’s population. Ducournau, who was born at the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, told Vanity Fair, “[Alpha] is a reflection about how this fear has been transmitted, and the impact it’s had on my generation.”
While Alpha won’t be as focused on body horror as her previous two films, Ducournau is still focusing on the idea of transformation. She told Vanity Fair,
“Alpha comes from this love that I have for this very transitional, uncomfortable space. It has to do with your body changing, specific smells, your own habitat—being between an animal and a human. It’s something I find incredibly human.”
Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, Mélissa Boros, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield, and Louai El Amrousy star in the new horror film.
Alpha comes to theaters this October from Neon.
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