Alpha

2025 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Horror

12
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 102 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58%
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 3631 3.6K

Plot summary

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.

Top cast

Tahar Rahim as Amin
Emma Mackey as Infirmière
Eden Grace as Une punk
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2 hr 7 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by patient1 8 / 10

A Soul Crushing Drama This opening scene looks

A Soul Crushing Drama This opening scene looks so innocent, and then it becomes completely heartbreaking when you realize exactly what is going on. Be prepared for a shock, as this is unlike anything I've ever seen on film and truly beyond words to describe. We've now got a refreshing look at family life amongst the trauma these people are facing, and it's wonderfully comforting. I've not seen the underlying epidemic that this family is dealing with from this side, and it's being portrayed in the loudest way I've even witnessed. The film is visually demanding on the senses, and you can't be sure how to feel or if there is any sense to the madness. In the midst of the tragedy that is the plight of the film, there is a rebellious outpouring showing the will to live.
Reviewed by dikablo 6 / 10

Look of medusa

Well,the body horror got left behind unlike the two previous features from Julia Ducournau and we ended up with a not so well crafted family drama.With a cast including Tahar Rahim(A Prophet),Golshifteh Farahani(Extraction) and Emma Mackey(Sex education) and an amazing performance from new talent Mélissa Boros driving through a shaky riddled plot that dosen't seem to care about drawing the whole picture for transparency.In a world struggling with a new virus that turns you into a roman sculpture like medusa just starred at you,Alpha(Mélissa Boros) is trying to unravel puberty and adolescence on her own while society is throwing crashing tsunami waves of drugs,abuse,bullying in a matter if sink or swim.A fuzzy feeling forms right on off the intro,followed by a super grainy sharpened picture style with fading colors to emphasise the emptyness of every scene that's already filled with sorrow and sickness as everyone's Frown face just wouldn't turn upside down.The movie leaps slowly through raw cinematography and scenes with plot holes That get you hopping on a bus not knowing where its heading.Spiraling out control seems to be the signature of Ducournau flicks but this one seemed to hold back even while demonstrating moral conflicts surrounding the constant pressure that leaks airborne within a family that's dealing with addiction and a coming of age angle that loses meaning and grip among the other elements that try to keep everything real,but adding nothing new to this scope or formulaNot too bad,but not to good either.
Reviewed by carrandas 6 / 10

Starts interesting but goes of the rails

Alpha starts off really strong but loses the plot halfway through.Alpha is about a teenage girl in the 80s who gets a tattoo, and her mom freaks out because she could have gotten "the virus." It clearly alluded to HIV , but the movie exaggerates it into a terrifying, almost horror-like disease.The first half works great - we see how quickly she's treated like an outcast. Her boyfriend panics after kissing her, nobody wants to touch her, and the film links her to groups who were stigmatized at the time due to HIV (gay men, junkies, etc.). It's heavy stuff but handled well.Then the second half happens. The focus shifts away from her and onto her junkie uncle, which just isn't as interesting. By the time the movie dives into its "dream within a dream" idea, it completely goes off the rails. I usually like weird, Lynch-style storytelling, but here it just felt messy and overcomplicated.Alpha starts out as an emotional story about fear and stigmatization, but by the end the director is too clever and the plot just gets frustrating.
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