Alpha, a troubled 13-year-old lives with her single mom. Their world collapses the day she returns from school with a tattoo on her arm.
Direction
Ducournau's most controlled chaos since Titane.
Sound
The tattoo 'spreading' has its own sickening audio language.
Acting
Boros and Farahani weaponize silence.
Director
Julia Ducournau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The tattoo designs were created by actual Parisian street artists who weren't told the plot—Ducournau wanted genuine outsider reactions to 'infected' imagery.
Ducournau has called this her 'COVID movie'—not about the virus, but about watching your teenager's body become unreadable to you during lockdown proximity.
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