Tahar Rahim has been transformed for its new role: Discover the first photos of Alpha de Julia Ducurna

This is one of the most expected film in the skin competition and its title is the word: alpha. Four years after his Palm of Gold Rock’n’roll, the titanium, director and script by Julia Duchurnu returns what has already been described as his most dark feature film, but also the most personal.

The story occurs in the eighties. Alpha (Mélissa Boros) is a young 13 -year -old teenage girl who lives alone with her mother (Golshifte Farhan). His world is falling apart when he discovers that his uncle, Amen (Tahar Rahim) has contracted a mysterious disease.

For the purposes of his role, Tahar Rahim lost more than 20 kilograms. During the popularization of Biopian Mr. Aznavour, the actor appeared very disclosed. Magazine Vanity Fair Discovered the first photos of the movie that showed the actor’s emotional look:

Alpha itself is a metaphor for AIDS epidemic and although it will not be a movie The horror of the body – A terrible sub -genre, which presents the transformation of the bodies -the actors received various prostheses during the shooting. Here, the breakdown of the body is of much more dramatic importance:

“It was a very difficult processExplains Julia in the columns of Duchurnu Vanity Fair. This is the memory that we have lost, whatever we need to release. The film talks a lot about the difficulty of running.“

The film will be shown on May 19 and will be released on French theaters on August 20.