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The Sanctity of the Scarred: Julia Ducournau’s Alpha and the Architecture of Grief
With the flesh-hungry cannibal siblings of Raw (2016) and the metallic, androgynous yearning of Titane (2021), filmmaker Julia Ducournau firmly established herself as the leading architect of the "New French Extremity." Her cinema has always existed in the liminal spaces where sex, fear, and death collide—a visceral playground where the fantastical dimensions of her characters […]
