Alpha

A movie not worth spending your money on it. Saw it at a movie festival , last movie aired on the last day of the Anonimul Festival. I gave it the benefit of the doubt until the very end and if I were to summarize it, I would say "hope dies last, but with this movie, it eventually dies". Nobody left the screening because otherwise you would have had a sleepless night trying to figure out what was the conclusion. After seeing this movie I needed an artistic cleansing, as in seeing any movie that restores my faith in cinematography. Go see again "Gandhi", "Black cat white cat" or anything else worth watching, this particular movie is a "flyover movie". Thank God it ended.

Julia Ducornau brings us another heartfelt body horror treat, this time in the form of Alpha, a familly drama, coming of age story and horror all rolled into one. I really enjoyed it, great performances from everyone, worth mentioning Tahar Rahim's amazing phisical acting. It had a good score, tense but unobtrusive, ocasionally interupted by a couple of fitting and really good liscened tracks. The body horror elements are great, while they definetly still make you squirm, unlike usual body horror they are not disgusting, they are beautifull in fact. They come across horrific yet fantastical, more tragic than scary and that is exactly where the narative needs them to be. A grat fim overall!

It is one of those films that makes you think. A lot. It is much less brutal and more poetic than Raw and Titane. It is not perfect but has so much meaning and reflects so much on human memory and intergenerational trauma that it is really worth watching. I was lucky enough to watch it at the Stockholm International Film Festival, with the director (Julia Ducournau) being present. We had an extremely enlightening conversation with her; she is a really intelligent woman with a rare artistic mind. I have loved all three of her films until now and can't wait to watch the next one.

Utterly remarkable acting which brought me to tears more than once. The powerful performances are to such great degree that it overshadow the story sometimes. However, Alpha is a film I do need to rewatch; Julia Ducournau is not required to tone down her imagination if the audience can't follow, just like the mathematical Julia set. Music lovers are equally in for a treat.

This film had a fantastic director who shot some beautiful scenes. The story got confused along the way and became nonsensical towards the end. Had great potential but poor execution.

The scenes especially that confuse the continuity of the film should have been cut.

The story should have stuck to the point.