40 years, 2 shocking films and 1 Palme d’Or: when will we see this great director in cinema?

3 years after winning the Palme d’Or for Titan, Julia Ducournau is preparing to return to cinema with a new feature film!

The project seems very mysterious at the moment. We just know the title, Alpha, and its two leads: Golshifteh Farahan and Tahar Rahim.

The synopsis is being kept under wraps for now, but according to a press release from distribution companies Filmnation and Charades, it will be “Julia’s most personal and profound film “.

After Grave, her first feature film, which has already been widely acclaimed, Julia Ducournau rocks the Croisette with Titan, selected for the 74th Cannes Film Festival in 2021. Driven by questions about the body and its multiple transformations, he recounted the journey of a serial killer. – bluffs Agate Roussel – who pretends to be a boy who disappeared ten years ago to escape from the police.

The scandal did not happen when the film received the Palme d’Or, but after the official screening organized on July 13. Titan’s violence evokes a number of visceral reactions, such as discomfort, in some viewers. Reactions that forced firefighters to intervene in the Grand Theater Lumiere.

On-site AlloCiné immortalized hot opinions on video. “This movie should be banned“, the audience was indignant at our microphone.

The Palme d’Or awarded to the film is a revolution in the history of the Croisette. 28 years after Jane Campion, Julia Ducournau becomes the second woman to receive the top prize. First of all, this is the first time that a so-called “genre” work, so transgressive and flirting with horror, has been received with such respect.

It should be noted that Julia Ducournau recently devoted herself to directing episodes of TV series. For example, he directed two episodes of The New Look series on Apple TV+.