Julia Ducournau has insisted that genre “imposed a distance” on her first two features, but to watch her third — the dour and dismal “Alpha,” which eschews the more legible body horror of her earlier ...

Once again, French director Julia Ducournau takes us into the lower depths. Four years after winning the Palme d’Or with her extraordinary Titane – in which humans and cars fused with grinding, ...

Judging by the sudden spike in high-concept AIDS allegories hitting the festival circuit, it must have been the shock of COVID-19 that sent so many artists’ minds racing back to that previous pandemic ...

I rarely allow myself to go into a major horror release fully blind. Such was the case with Palme d’Or-winning director Julia Ducournau’s sophomore masterpiece, Titane, a highly stylized and ...

Julia Ducournau has insisted that genre "imposed a distance" on her first two features, but to watch her third - the dour and dismal "Alpha," which eschews the more legible body horror of her earlier ...