Golshifteh Farahani plagued by anxiety in Alpha: trailer

After titanium, here are finally the first images of the long -awaited film by Julia Ducournau, presented in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.

This year, Julia Ducournau Make his return On the red carpet of the Cannes Film Festival surrounded by Golshifteh Farahani,, Tahar Rahim And Mélissa Boros. She presents this Monday evening Alphahis third feature film after Severe And Titaniumwho had won the golden palm and stirred the Croisette in 2021.

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Again, it is a young woman Who is at the center of history: Alpha (Mélissa Boros) is a 13 -year -old tulmuteuse teenager, who lives alone with her mother (Golshifteh Farahani). But their world collapses when it comes back with a strange tattoo on the armreturning from school.

This mysterious synopsis is barely clarified with this new trailer. We discover for the first time the mother-daughter duo, on a melody sung by Iranian actress and artist. But as always with Ducourneau, Sweetness is only very short passage. The smiles fade quickly to make room anxiety and stress When the girl reveals the blood red tattoo (or rather the wound), in the form of A. We find the themes dear to the director: the body-horror And the change of the adolescent body, family relationships, or transmission.

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It is also the first time that we have seen Tahar Rahim in this new role. “Don’t you remember me?”he launches, in bad shape. Recently, the latter was playing Mr AZNAVOURperformance which earned him to be appointed to the César. We were also able to see Golshifteh Farahani in Read Lolita in Tehran. Besides these two big actors, the young Melissa Boros only makes her second appearance in the cinema – which promises to be intense – after Sibel’s silence. Emma Mackey, Finnegan Oldfield and Louai El Amrousy complete this cast. Alpha divert From next August 20.

Will Julia Ducournau win A second palm of gold thanks to Alpha ? The answer very soon …