Alpha

...ett skrämmande och vackert socialrealistiskt drama som innovativt sträcker sig över genregränserna.

Through its complex structure, formed of different timelines and split realities, uncanny dreams and blurred memories, “Alpha” viscerally teases out the binds of love and trauma.

Here, Ducournau opts for a story both sprawling and soft — but if you’re willing to dredge through the swirling sands, it is just as complex and impactful as her previous offerings.

For all its cool stone, Alpha is not a cold film, and vibrates with life in the way Raw pulsed with desire and Titane with white-hot fury.

...a melancholy meditation on grief, heavily influenced by the AIDS epidemic.