After winning the Palme d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Julia Ducournau is about to make its return to the big screen. What do we already know aboutAlphahis next feature film, with Golshifteh Farahani And Tahar Rahim in the main roles?
Julia Ducournau, genre filmmaker crowned at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival
We are often mostly shocked. In 2021, Julia Ducournau won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his second feature film, Titanium. A horror film which explored the contours of the genre, thanks to a main character played by Agathe Rousselle And Vincent Lindon as a father figure. It created a surprise by winning the most coveted prize of the festival, in particular because of its gory nature, the DNA par excellence of French genre films, unloved for too long by the general public. A bold choice on the part of a jury chaired by the African-American filmmaker Spike Leesurrounded, among others, by the filmmaker Mati Diopthe singer Mylène Farmerthe actor Tahar Rahim or the director Kleber Mendonça Filho.
According to the director Bertrand Bonelloa regular in genre cinema since his beginnings in the 90s, and tutelary figure of Julia Ducournau while she was still a student at La Fémis, this Palme d’Or appeared as proof of a radical change in the French cinematic landscape: “At the National Cinema Center, for example, the creation of a call for genre film projects, in 2018, he explained to us in full promotion of The beasthis latest feature film released in theaters. There is a real desire, especially among young filmmakers, to move away from French naturalism”.
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What do we know aboutAlpha ?
As The Last Showgirlthe next film from Gia Coppola with Pamela Anderson in the title role, Alphathe third feature film from Julia Ducournau, will be offered to various distribution companies during the Cannes Film Festival – one of the largest film markets in the world, where more than 12,500 film industry professionals present around 4,000 films each year and projects. It will be presented there by the production companies FilmNation and Charades. An American and French co-production therefore, for the great return of Julia Ducournau behind the camera. A widely anticipated return, knowing that her coronation at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival had made her the second director to win a Palme d’Or, after Jane Campion For The piano lessonand before Justine Triet For Anatomy of a fall.
Alphawhose title is already evocative, will see Golshifteh Farahani (seen in the Paterson of Jim Jarmuschor in The two friends of Louis Garrel) And Tahar RahimCaesarized in 2010 for his role in a prophet of Jacques Audiardand since crossed in the mini-series The snake. If no element of the plot has yet been revealed, FilmNation and Charades have released a press release, stating thatAlpha was “Julia’s most personal and profound work to date”. And to continue: “We can’t wait for a global audience to discover this story as enthusiastically as we do”. We can bet that we will find the themes dear to the French director’s cinema, namely family, love and monstrosity.
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