Overview
- Alpha reaches cinemas on November 21 after competing at Cannes without awards and inaugurating the Sitges Festival.
- Critics highlight austere, desaturated visuals and powerful performances, especially Mélissa Boros and a gaunt Tahar Rahim.
- Reviews praise the striking depiction of bodies turning marble‑like while noting moments of narrative confusion and uneven flow.
- The story follows a 13‑year‑old, her doctor mother, and a recovering heroin‑using uncle as a stigma‑laden illness spreads.
- Ducournau says the movie is not horror but a drama about love, conceived to process fears she associates with the 1990s AIDS peak.