With Alpha, Acclaimed Filmmaker Julia Ducournau Takes an Inevitable Stumble

Maybe it was inevitable that Julia Ducournau would stumble with her third feature. The French filmmaker’s previous film, 2021’s car-centric body horror Titane, which won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, set the expectations bar high. As a storyteller (beginning with her 2016 coming-of-age cannibal horror debut, Raw), Ducournau creates intense, borderline uncomfortable […]