Four years later Julia Ducounau Won Palme d’O or With his jaw-releasing body horror car’s sex drama “Titane”, the filmmaker is back at Cannes Croisette with her “Alpha. “
Ducouruus’s third feature, like “Titane”, will be distributed by neon, centers on a titular teen whose life is up after a mysterious decision. The filmOfficial Logline reads: “Alpha (Mélissa Boros) is a worried 13 -year -old who lives with her single mother (Golshfefeh Farahani). Their world collapses on the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.” Tahar Rahim, Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield and Louai El Amrousy Star.
“Alpha” premiere In competition at Canneswith Ducounau One of seven female board members With new films in the main competition. Kelly Reichardt comes too Start “Mastermind”, while Mascha Schilinski has “sound of falling,” Lynne Ramsay has “Die My Love”, along with Hafsia Herzi “La Petite Dernière,” Chie Hayakawa’s “Renoir” and Carla Simón’s “Romania.”
Although it is unclear if “Alpha” will thematically bind to Ducouruus’s previous feature films “Raw” and “Titane”, the filmmaker told indifire 2021 that she likes to have “small Easter eggs” over her filmography. But she added Vanity In 2025, “I realized that I said something I had already said in my two previous films. I was bored of it – and annoyed at myself for me to stay in that comfort zone. From film to film I always feel that I can go further in the way I reveal myself, which is extremely difficult to do.”
Ducounau continued, “With each movie I think I can put myself in a more vulnerable place to relate to the audience more and more,” she says. “And I’m not finished digging. It’s an eternal path: How can I be more sincere? How can I get closer to my feelings? How can I show them in a more accurate way, with more generosity? To me that’s the only way. That’s why I make movies.”
Ducounau previously announced an A24 TV series in the works in addition to “Alpha”; Indieview can confirm that the project is still in work.
Neon will premiere “Alpha” in theaters this fall. Check out the teaser below.
