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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.

Firstly, I think I need to rewatch this film. The end of it got a bit too ambiguous. I think I know what happened. But it got very esoteric as if the audience was too young to understand and so it shifted to a metaphor. I think it was meant to be a twist in the end scene but it got confusing.

The film reminded me so much of Requiem for a Dream. So many interconnecting dream sequences. It's hard to figure out if the disease was real or a figment of imagination. The "disease" was more of a backdrop to a story about hurting the people left behind. There was an imbued theme of medical ethics by a hopelessly conflicted Alpha's mum. She is driven by trauma to do her duty.

I really enjoyed the first half and the slow build. The fear and horror of others. There is this almost 80s like paranoia of life is normal but it's really not which affects parents and teachers. It's when the film moves into the second half. That it gets highly disorientating and needed a bit of additional narrative. It's still a very very difficult watch.

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 formula

Not too bad,but not to good either.

I really like Julia Ducournau's previous works as Raw and Titane were quite unique horror story of our modern climate of horror movies. However, this latest movie still remains ambitious and has some very good moments, but the overall execution feels somewhat overcomplicated, and messy.

It's pretty clear that Ducournau has an interesting direction on presenting the narrative, atmosphere and themes throughout. As many of her direction choices on handling the AIDs/HIV allegory, societal norms, and the tension between mother and daughter is personal and clear. I did appreciate some aspects Ducournau was exploring in the writing and setting. Alongside with some solid camerawork, the colorful environment and presentation feels ugly, yet, purposeful. As it helps establish the time era, but also the current tension and the heavy themes.

However, what prevents the movie being a masterpiece is the characters and overall, story-presentation. The performances were all pretty good, as Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani, Melissa Boros, and the rest of the cast were all fantastic. But, I had a little hard time engaging with the characters at certain point, as they didn't feel too emotionally connected as Ducournau wanted to be. Alongside with some of the writing choices. I love weird writing and strange concepts, but certain moments with how dynamics were played out, the pacing, and how certain themes were handled felt all over the place.

The musical score felt overbearing, as it feels forced and cheesy, and there are some dialogue moments that felt a bit silly. The special effects, and make-up designs were pretty good, and at times, a little horrifying. Showcasing some themes of body-horror within the narrative.

Overall, I am a little underwhelmed that I didn't like this movie as much as I would have. However, having listened to Ducournau discuss about the movies purpose, it definitely still is a ambitious horror take on the AID's crisis, and I do like to see where Ducournau goes next.

Now, when I stumbled upon this 2025 movie titled "Alpha", from writer and director Julia Ducournau, I virtually had no idea what I was in for, aside from it being a horror movie. But given my love of all things horror, of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and give the movie a fair chance.

While there was potential in the storyline, I have to say that writer Julia Ducournau sort of dropped the ball, and the movie ultimately fell short of being overly interesting. Yet, I stuck around for a very prolonged 128 minutes, hoping the movie would pick up and something interesting actually would start to happen. So many things in the narrative were just casually brushed aside without given any in-depth explanations, such as the virus, or how a man can walk about with a back that literally crumbled, and other things.

I was actually not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, which I found to be a nice thing, as I do enjoy watching new and unfamiliar talents on the screen. The acting performances in the movie were fair.

The effects in the movie were actually quite good, especially the scene with the biopsy performed on the back. That was definitely the most interesting scene in the entire movie.

The movie was a rather shallow experience, as there simply was too many things easily glanced over without paying much attention to it or bothering to paint it out for the audience. So it felt like a half-hearted movie at best. And thus, it is hardly a movie that I would recommend you to spend 128 minutes on watching, as there simply wasn't enough of interesting contents to the narrative. Trust me, this movie will never find a second play on my screen.

It should be noted that the movie was far too slow paced and long to support a 128 minute runtime. It would have benefitted tremendously from a more round-handed trim in editing.

My rating of writer and director Julia Ducournau's 2025 movie "Alpha" lands on a rather generous four out of ten stars.

Alpha has an interesting premise, but the film spends far too long circling a message that's ultimately very simple. What could have been a tight, impactful story becomes slow, repetitive, and overly symbolic. The performances are solid, but the script leans so heavily on metaphor that the emotional core gets lost. By the time the film reaches its conclusion, it feels like a lot of buildup for very little payoff. Not terrible, just frustratingly hollow.

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.

A movie not worth spending your money on it. Saw it at a movie festival , last movie aired on the last day of the Anonimul Festival. I gave it the benefit of the doubt until the very end and if I were to summarize it, I would say "hope dies last, but with this movie, it eventually dies". Nobody left the screening because otherwise you would have had a sleepless night trying to figure out what was the conclusion. After seeing this movie I needed an artistic cleansing, as in seeing any movie that restores my faith in cinematography. Go see again "Gandhi", "Black cat white cat" or anything else worth watching, this particular movie is a "flyover movie". Thank God it ended.

Utterly remarkable acting which brought me to tears more than once. The powerful performances are to such great degree that it overshadow the story sometimes. However, Alpha is a film I do need to rewatch; Julia Ducournau is not required to tone down her imagination if the audience can't follow, just like the mathematical Julia set. Music lovers are equally in for a treat.

This film had a fantastic director who shot some beautiful scenes. The story got confused along the way and became nonsensical towards the end. Had great potential but poor execution.

The scenes especially that confuse the continuity of the film should have been cut.

The story should have stuck to the point.

A chilling epidemic, widespread unrest among the populace, and a cloud of paranoia; elements all stem from the chaos that ensued in the past during HIV/AIDS transmission. Therefore, the tale centred around a rare, untreatable disease is bound to stir some 'relevant' emotions.

That said, the symbolism feels tenuous at best, much like the interpersonal dynamics among the central characters: the mother, the brother, and the daughter. I found it difficult to connect with their personal struggles, aside from a few fleeting moments of spark, the writing overall failed to sustain my interest in their respective journeys and plight.

The psychological aspects, whilst intriguing, are carelessly woven into the narrative. They come across primarily as hints and vague allusions, lacking the solid grounding needed to make them convincing and credible.

As for the bodily themes; something Ducournau has always been drawn to (Raw and Titane are the clear examples) it's evident that these elements are tied to social stigma, reflecting the shame and guilt we often carry and inadvertently pass on to those we love.

However, once again, the execution falls short of attaining the legitimacy of the drawn parallels; the implications do not reach the depth that was intended, nor did it solidify their intentions.

If you want to subject yourself to 2 hours of drug/aids related nastiness and ugliness with no redeeming quality then this movie is for you. If you've got something better to see/do, do it.

Alpha is for some reason the name of a girl. When she's 5 she has to spend time with her junkie aids infected uncle. In the present she's 13 and gets an "artisanal" tattoo so to speak at a drug apartment with her would-be boyfriend. She repeatedly starts bleeding which freaks everybody out since a virus is going around. Her mother is a physician who is of course worried that the girl caught the virus. For no good reason she lets the junkie brother stay with them. The 2 timelines keep intertwining confusedly.

This movie has little horror. It's really an aids glorifying drama that comes laughably decades too late. There's not much of a story, there's just some back and forth love and hate between these characters and some symbolism regarding aids. There's one single "horror" scene which is quite cool but that's about it. Save your time with something more edifying than this.

Saw Alpha last night and absolutely loved it. Wonderful acting all around, with Tahar Rahim as uncle Amin being the highlight for me.

It's not an easy watch. There's many layers and a complex structure. But, for me at least, all that adds up to a very powerful story that does bring me back to the scary times I lived through in the 80's.

The greater role for Uncle Amin in the second half of the movie also works for me, even though I understand comments that this is sort of a break in the flow. My interpretation is that this help broaden what Alpha goes through, from personal to more of a world-views building experience.

Julia Ducournau's Alpha is a mesmerizing return to the territory only she can command, that trembling border where the human body becomes both temple and battlefield. With surgical precision, she turns illness into poetry, translating decay into transcendence. The film's surreal language of body horror isn't shock for shock's sake; it's emotional anatomy, a study of how pain, desire, and transformation coexist beneath the skin.

Through her young protagonist, Ducournau achieves something staggering: a child's gaze that carries the weight of mortality, self-destruction, and cosmic rebirth. The way Alpha bends time and space feels mystical, almost sacred, yet it remains anchored by characters so vividly drawn that every gesture vibrates with empathy. Death and suicide are approached not as spectacle but as whispers from the human core, a thriller built from heartbeats and silence rather than fear.

Every frame pulses with her trademark sensual surrealism, blending flesh and spirit into one continuous hallucination. The performances, especially from the titular Alpha, are ferociously delicate and unsettlingly pure. It's a film that cuts deep and then heals you with the same hand. Ducournau once again proves she's not just a filmmaker but a biologist of the soul.

Julia Ducornau brings us another heartfelt body horror treat, this time in the form of Alpha, a familly drama, coming of age story and horror all rolled into one. I really enjoyed it, great performances from everyone, worth mentioning Tahar Rahim's amazing phisical acting. It had a good score, tense but unobtrusive, ocasionally interupted by a couple of fitting and really good liscened tracks. The body horror elements are great, while they definetly still make you squirm, unlike usual body horror they are not disgusting, they are beautifull in fact. They come across horrific yet fantastical, more tragic than scary and that is exactly where the narative needs them to be. A grat fim overall!

It is one of those films that makes you think. A lot. It is much less brutal and more poetic than Raw and Titane. It is not perfect but has so much meaning and reflects so much on human memory and intergenerational trauma that it is really worth watching. I was lucky enough to watch it at the Stockholm International Film Festival, with the director (Julia Ducournau) being present. We had an extremely enlightening conversation with her; she is a really intelligent woman with a rare artistic mind. I have loved all three of her films until now and can't wait to watch the next one.