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  "path": "/article/782442/with-alpha-acclaimed-filmmaker-julia-ducournau-takes-an-inevitable-stumble/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-26T17:38:22.000Z",
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  "textContent": "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 […]",
  "title": "With Alpha, Acclaimed Filmmaker Julia Ducournau Takes an Inevitable Stumble"
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