There are no modern filmmakers as polarising, audacious, or loving as Julia Ducournau . The French director became the first woman to win the prestigious Palme D'Or at Cannes Film Festival in 2021 with Titane , a body horror extravaganza following the journey of a woman whose traumatic injury from a car crash in childhood sets off a tragically bizarre spiral of events in her adulthood. Four years later, she has made her highly-anticipated comeback with Alpha , a psychological drama following a 13-year-old girl (played by brilliant newcomer Mélissa Boros) who returns from school with a tattoo, only to trigger her mother's (Golshifteh Farahani) fears of a lethal bloodborne disease that slowly turns people to marble. In her struggle, Alpha bonds with her uncle Amin ( The Serpent

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