"I tend to rush to the next project after I'm done with a film because I don't want to get into depression and fall into the void. She didn't allow herself to dwell on her Palme d'Or win ("I hide it in my house so I don't see it") and began work on a new script, but after a year, Ducournau hit the brakes."
"It centres around Alpha (Mélissa Boros), a teenage girl living in coastal France, who returns home to her doctor mother (Golshifteh Farahani) with a freshly inked tattoo on her arm. There's a disease circulating, which transforms the infected's skin into milky white marble - and it appears that Alpha is the latest to contract it. Her social ostracisation is swift and vicious but she finds succour in Amin, her uncle and a man in the throes of drug addiction, played wonderfully by Tahar Rahim."
After Titane, Julia Ducournau began a new script quickly but paused after a year, recognizing the work had become a buffer zone and repetitive. She returned to the drawing board and developed Alpha, a gorgeous, unwieldy quasi-ghost story that feels stranger and eerier than Titane. Alpha centers on a teenage girl who returns home with a fresh tattoo while a disease circulates that transforms infected skin into milky white marble. Social ostracisation forces the girl toward Amin, an addicted uncle played by Tahar Rahim, creating a narrative of compassion amid isolation and physical transformation.
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