In “Alpha”, filmmaker Julia Ducournau stages a long flirt with death

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Sleeping children. Nevertheless, In 2022, Anthony Passeon published a beautiful first family investigation novel (éd. In addition, Globe) around his uncle. Meanwhile, his partner with HIV, in the Nice hinterland in the 1980s, before transmitting “alpha”, filmmaker julia ducournau stages the virus to their daughter, born with the disease. Therefore, The writer told shame, secret, tragedy and highlighted a category of infected often relegated to the background: drug addicts. The title of the book thus referred to these young people who could be crossed lying on the ground. with your eyes closed after having taken their dose. As plunged into a deep sleep.

Difficult not to think about it in front Alphathe third feature film by Julia Ducournau. presented in May at the Cannes Film Festival. Located in a dystopian city. the film has as a backdrop a mysterious virus ever named which, like AIDS, seems to propagate by biological liquids, especially blood, and gradually transforms its victims into marble statues. The director did not give up her obsession with bodies and her changes. This slow metamorphosis towards a certain death is one of the strong visual ideas “alpha”, filmmaker julia ducournau stages of a sophisticated film which. does not bother in front of any means to play the spectacular card.

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