Alpha
A film by Julia Ducournau
w/ Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani
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.
Ducournau has conceived “Alpha” as another body-horror movie in an oeuvre that includes “Raw” (about coming to terms with cannibalism) and “Titane” (a more complicated case of learning to accept the monster within). Though all three films feature adolescents overwhelmed by inexplicable changes, “Alpha” is not like the others in that the character has yet to hit puberty.
Peter Debruge
Variety
w/ Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani
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.
Ducournau has conceived “Alpha” as another body-horror movie in an oeuvre that includes “Raw” (about coming to terms with cannibalism) and “Titane” (a more complicated case of learning to accept the monster within). Though all three films feature adolescents overwhelmed by inexplicable changes, “Alpha” is not like the others in that the character has yet to hit puberty.
Peter Debruge
Variety
