Alpha, the brand new, still-top-secret movie from Titane director Julia Ducournau will likely be one of many scorching initiatives being shopped to patrons at this 12 months’s Cannes movie market.
About Elly and Paterson actress Golshifteh Farahani and French star Tahar Rahim (A Prophet, The Mauritanian) are set to star within the characteristic, the plot particulars of that are nonetheless below wraps. Eric Altmayer and Nicolas Altmayer are producing for Mandarin & compagnie, with Jean des Forêts and Amélie Jacquis for Petit Movie, in co-production with Jean-Yves Roubin and Cassandre Warnauts of Frakas Productions. Supply is deliberate for later this 12 months.
Alpha will likely be Ducournau’s third characteristic after the one-two punch of her 2016 breakout debut Uncooked, which received the worldwide movie critics’ Fipresci Prize in its Cannes’ Critics’ Week debut; and Titane, the shock Palme d’Or winner of 2021, which grew to become France’s official Oscar contender that 12 months.
Each mixed parts of physique horror with feminist and gender-bending themes and shocked and dazzled audiences and critics in equal measure. Each had been additionally sleeper indie success tales, with Uncooked grossing $3 million worldwide and Titane near $5 million.
In a press release, the producers referred to as Alpha “a brand new web page in Julia Ducournau‘s corpus that’s each very in line with the earlier ones and fully new in its tone. To match an distinctive mission, it was essential to transcend conventions, as evidenced by the distinctive mixture of producers on one hand and worldwide gross sales corporations on the opposite.”
New York-based FilmNation Leisure and France’s Charades will group as much as deal with worldwide gross sales on the movie, the primary collaboration between the 2 gross sales heavyweights.
“Alpha is Julia’s most private, profound work but, and we’re trying ahead to a world viewers discovering the story with as a lot pleasure as we did,” the 2 corporations stated in a press release.
Ducournau is represented by Movie Skills. Farahani is represented by Agence Adequat and CAA. Rahim is represented by Agence Adequat and UTA.