French director Julia Ducournau, Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for her second feature film Titanium recently revealed the casting ofAlphahis highly anticipated new film. We find in particular the Franco-Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani and the actor Tahar Rahim.
Alpha : the new film by Julia Ducournau with Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim
After the success of Grave (2016) with Garance Marillier then Titanium with the actress Agathe Rousselle, Palme d’or au Cannes Film Festivalthe French director Julia Ducournau has revealed some information about his long-awaited third feature film. Titled Alpha, this film has been defined by the filmmaker as “her most personal and profound work.” For the moment, little information has been provided to the press regarding the synopsis but the first members of the cast are already known.
We will find in Alpha an internationally acclaimed actress since Golshifteh Farahani will play one of the main characters. Born in Tehran, the Franco-Iranian has already collaborated with Jim Jarmush (Paterson), Arnaud Desplechin (Sibling), Mamad Haghighat (Two Angels) or even Ridley Scott (State lies). At his side, the French actor Tahar Rahimyou stand Prophet of Jacques Audiard whose performance was recently praised in The Snake on Netflix. He also camped Paul Barrasformer Director of the Directory of France, under the camera of Ridley Scott In Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix. He will soon play the Armenian singer Charles Aznavour at the cinema in a film Large Sick Body et Mehdi Idir.
Julia Ducournau and her controversial cinema
The cinema of Julia Ducournau – inveterate fan of David Cronenberg – remains controversial. In 2021, Titanium had enchanted part of the public, fans of genre films, while the other part remained unmoved. So, when theObs evoked “the affirmation of a filmmaker who vomits the lukewarm and believes, beyond reason, in the powers of cinema,” Liberation regrets that “Julia Ducournau’s second film, as nightmarish as it is messy, passes from disgusting fantasies and disordered repulsions to the arbitrariness of the shaker.”
On the occasion of the promotion of Crimes of the Future by David Cronenberg (2022), the actor Viggo Mortensen had not failed to add a layer: “Several years ago it was Crash the Cronenberg which caused a scandal. And without wanting to offend Titanium, according to me, Crash surpasses this film head and shoulders. Because it’s not just a superficial provocation with unconventional images. There is a story behind it, there are real characters that are explored, much more than in Titanium, I think.”
The film Apha (2204) by Julia Ducournau does not yet have a release date.
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