"If I hadn't been a filmmaker, I would have been a psychiatrist": Julia Ducournau returns to Cannes after "Titane"
Winner of the Palme d'Or in 2021, the director returns to the official competition with "Alpha," which stars Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, and Mélissa Boros in the title role. A conversation.
By Yves Jaeglé , special correspondent in Cannes (Alpes-Maritimes)From the rooftop terrace of a palace, swimmers can be seen in the distance on this hot Monday on the Croisette. So far away, so close to the incandescent darkness of "Alpha," which marks Julia Ducournau 's big return to the red carpet, four years after her surprise Palme d'Or for "Titane" in 2021. She was 37. In great shape, smiling, the now young forty-something talks about her post-Palme and this new film that abandons genre cinema, but not a form of fantasy fueled by visions of the imminent death of humanity.
Alpha and Omega are the beginning and the end in the Bible. You made a film about the Apocalypse, and the attempt to save one's skin?
Le Parisien
