Julia Ducournau's "Alpha": a weighty allegory on the AIDS years
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After Titane , winner of the Palme d'Or in 2021, Julia Ducournau's new film seeks to convey the feeling of isolation of AIDS patients in the 1980s through a fantastical narrative that underlines all its intentions with a deafening gravity.
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I subscribeIt was one of the most anticipated films of the last Cannes Film Festival. And one of the biggest disappointments. Four years after Titane , a controversial Palme d'Or winner and relative success in theaters (300,000 admissions), Julia Ducournau returns with a new allegory weighted with lead. Or rather, marble. Because, in Alpha , a mysterious virus is rampant, petrifying – literally – those who contract it… Starting with homosexuals and drug addicts, whose veins transform into the veins of recumbent figures, an allusion to the emaciated bodies of AIDS victims.
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