Alpha

2025 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Horror

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 56% · 62 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56%
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 2673 2.7K

coming of age disease pandemic mother daughter relationship body horror depressing

Director

Julia Ducournau Photo
Julia Ducournau

Top cast

Emma Mackey Photo
Emma Mackey as Infirmière
Golshifteh Farahani Photo
Golshifteh Farahani as Maman
Tahar Rahim Photo
Tahar Rahim as Amin
Eden Grace Photo
Eden Grace as Une punk
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1.15 GB
1280*530
French 2.0
R
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24 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 28
2.36 GB
1920*796
French 5.1
R
Subtitles us  pt  
24 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 55
2.14 GB
1920*796
French 5.1
R
Subtitles us  pt  
24 fps
2 hr 8 min
Seeds 49

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dikablo 6 / 10

Look of medusa

Well,the body horror got left behind unlike the two previous features from Julia Ducournau and we ended up with a not so well crafted family drama.With a cast including Tahar Rahim(A Prophet),Golshifteh Farahani(Extraction) and Emma Mackey(Sex education) and an amazing performance from new talent Mélissa Boros driving through a shaky riddled plot that dosen't seem to care about drawing the whole picture for transparency.In a world struggling with a new virus that turns you into a roman sculpture like medusa just starred at you,Alpha(Mélissa Boros) is trying to unravel puberty and adolescence on her own while society is throwing crashing tsunami waves of drugs,abuse,bullying in a matter if sink or swim.A fuzzy feeling forms right on off the intro,followed by a super grainy sharpened picture style with fading colors to emphasise the emptyness of every scene that's already filled with sorrow and sickness as everyone's Frown face just wouldn't turn upside down.The movie leaps slowly through raw cinematography and scenes with plot holes That get you hopping on a bus not knowing where its heading.Spiraling out control seems to be the signature of Ducournau flicks but this one seemed to hold back even while demonstrating moral conflicts surrounding the constant pressure that leaks airborne within a family that's dealing with addiction and a coming of age angle that loses meaning and grip among the other elements that try to keep everything real,but adding nothing new to this scope or formulaNot too bad,but not to good either.
Reviewed by carrandas 6 / 10

Starts interesting but goes of the rails

Alpha starts off really strong but loses the plot halfway through.Alpha is about a teenage girl in the 80s who gets a tattoo, and her mom freaks out because she could have gotten "the virus." It clearly alluded to HIV , but the movie exaggerates it into a terrifying, almost horror-like disease.The first half works great - we see how quickly she's treated like an outcast. Her boyfriend panics after kissing her, nobody wants to touch her, and the film links her to groups who were stigmatized at the time due to HIV (gay men, junkies, etc.). It's heavy stuff but handled well.Then the second half happens. The focus shifts away from her and onto her junkie uncle, which just isn't as interesting. By the time the movie dives into its "dream within a dream" idea, it completely goes off the rails. I usually like weird, Lynch-style storytelling, but here it just felt messy and overcomplicated.Alpha starts out as an emotional story about fear and stigmatization, but by the end the director is too clever and the plot just gets frustrating.
Reviewed by sameenuk 6 / 10

Very Requiem for a Dream

Firstly, I think I need to rewatch this film. The end of it got a bit too ambiguous. I think I know what happened. But it got very esoteric as if the audience was too young to understand and so it shifted to a metaphor. I think it was meant to be a twist in the end scene but it got confusing.The film reminded me so much of Requiem for a Dream. So many interconnecting dream sequences. It's hard to figure out if the disease was real or a figment of imagination. The "disease" was more of a backdrop to a story about hurting the people left behind. There was an imbued theme of medical ethics by a hopelessly conflicted Alpha's mum. She is driven by trauma to do her duty.I really enjoyed the first half and the slow build. The fear and horror of others. There is this almost 80s like paranoia of life is normal but it's really not which affects parents and teachers. It's when the film moves into the second half. That it gets highly disorientating and needed a bit of additional narrative. It's still a very very difficult watch.
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