Once again, the French director Julia Dukorno It takes us in less depths. Four years after her victory or with her unusual Titan – Where humans and cars fuse a grinding mill, roaming in exciting energy – return to He was Film Festival Competition with alphaProbably like a movie like Titan To divide the masses between dazzling and disgust.
Again, Ducournau puts itself in a collision path with the human body, hunger, wounds and weakness. Heroin addicted to the pain of withdrawal; Tattoos keep blood flow. More importantly, the virus is circulated, which gradually transforms people into fragile statues, which are the parts that have become a ceramic collapsing in fragments while physical fluids leak from the cracks that are still possible.
In unanimous colors that the world appears in shades of blue blue, Ducournau takes us to the world of crime from clubs filled with double human debris, and they live while waiting for death. This is the type of horrific scene that we may expect from. The most facing is that the central character is a 13 -year -old girl who has just been built by a classmate with dirty skin insufficiency. As Alpha called her mother sitting next to her uncle prostrating, she accused him of finally allowing him to die because of an overdose, she is very small to deal with this. Sometimes I felt the small shape for it myself.
framework alpha Less type, however, is more than family drama. Alpha (Melissa Borus) is the only child of a young doctor (Golshifteh Farahani) who works in a closed hospital wing with people with virus, with many patients who gathered outside the hospital, and hit the doors. Alpha is also a handful, sometimes childish – climbing from its window to dilapidated scourges that transmit its construction, for example – and sometimes a kind of teenage madness that leads to sex, drugs and viruses. She is now convinced of her daughter, who is tested. Farhani, always impressive, is the power of nature here. Alpha Borus, which is given to drift to venerations like many teenage girls, can be recognized immediately; We fear it.
The mother has a cause of anxiety about alpha. Her brother Amin (Taher Rahim) is a frightening addict, and his arms are covered in the dirty holes made by repetition. Rahim, with a little, striking dialogue, gives the physical performance for the extent of life, his stumbling body as a dancer. The mother allows him to stay, sleeping on the floor of the alpha bedroom, because she – as she says – will not give up on him. She must take care of everyone. Everyone needs it, even if they do not want it. “A lot of love”, Amin notes his daughter’s daughter, “makes you crazy.” Although it is perhaps crazy like their barbarian grandmother, which puts both addiction and virus to the red wind, a type of demonic possession.
The grandmother may have a point. A clouds of red dust rotated through the movie again and again, which is huge winds that rise on the soundtrack. Wind explosions, rolling waves riding, and the defection of the earth: these initial threats appear and disappear like signs of heavens, and Harbitsers from the final times. Music passes through the movie, every song roaming at the top of Soundscape trenches like an army that enters the battle. In the opening scene, we see alpha, 5, with a perceived pen, and joins the points on her uncle’s arm. “This looks more beautiful,” she says, as it seems that Beth Gibbons is high on “Roads” in Portishead and is about to upload the movie to orbit.
At home, Alpha formed Uncle Amin Jack with cramps on her floor, then sliding from the family Eid dinner for registration. At school, the word was out of its potential enemy. Ducounau is at its best uncompromising conditions when dealing with fatwas, fears and betrayal of her friends; The scene in which a classmate tries to drown in the school swimming pool, which was largely filmed at the water level, is Tour De Force. She fights, partly out of ignorance; She believes that she cannot afflict her boyfriend at some point, Adrian (Lay Elmsousi) because they already know each other. All wrong guesses and bone insanity surrounding AIDS in the 1980s, which were revived from their temporary calm by the last epidemic, are thrown to dilute them by Microcosm from high school. The mother is announced when the teacher expels alpha. Alpha only wants to go out before children kill her.
Less overwhelming than Titanand alpha You may have a more strict grip on the real world. Its time consultations, which mean that alpha can be 5 and then 11 in the same scene, or in two observations that reflect each other, or that seem to be followed by each other but may also be separated in the years, and they are frustrated: crises may reach the alpha short life, such as the arrival of desert winds, but these crises from resistance to reach them. The film can also wear you, too. These three shows, on the other hand, are indelible victories. Along with the strength of the ducournau cinematic vision, of course, which carries all the situation in the world before that.
address: alpha
festival: It was (competition)
distributor: neon
Screen director: Julia Dukorno
Empty: Raheem, Golsheva Farhani, Melissa Borus, Emma Makki, Fenjan Oldfield, Lay El Mossi
Running time: 2 hours 8 minutes
