Julia Dukurna.

What do we do after a shocking movie? After the forge, you are registered after a terrible and mutant thrill as a new mistress of the genre. In 2021, in 38, Julia Dukurnu has already noticed Lustful In 2017, he became the second wife, after Jane Campium, won the gold palm Title At the Cannes Film Festival. Four years later it was again that he introduced him Alpha as mysterious as expected. From the film we just knew that Golshift Farchary and Tahar Rahim was staged to intimidate 22 pounds for frightening. In Cannes, we found the history of Alpha, a rough and tormented teenager (Melissa Boros), which should grow between the ultra-core mother and a few of the world, where the virus turns patients into marble statues. Lyrical and ambitious, confused and annoying for some, less “gray” than Lustful Or TitleAlpha explicitly expresses expressly expressed by intimate moments (teen meal with its Algerian fur, directly inspired by Julia Dukurin family) and detective known to all (: Let it happen The second Ultrasound Movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony from Tame Impala), emotions, tenderness and redemption, which we only forced to guess in the director’s films. Who has allowed himself to touch his audience with the excitement of love than the horror?

Madame Figaro: What was the first idea, the spark that gave birth Alpha ?
Julia Dukournau.- Actually there is no sparkle. This is a subject that I had in mind for a very long time, but I pushed back in an indefinite time. I imagined to do it bigger, larger, more experienced. In many ways it was a movie that was in anxiety. Then TitleI started to develop another movie, but I made it, I wrote that I repeated me I was in the comfort zone. They say what is being done. What is done should no longer be done and, first of all, I think that comfort is a creative sterile. In some way I have the impression that I have been shot from the film, what I am looking for, I will go more and more excitement, giving me much more than myself. This does not mean that I am far from the cinema of the genre, because I work very visually, with images, my head is being done. But which first came Alpha ? I really can’t say. In any case, I remembered this final emotional movement, a place where the cathers will not be done with an organic or terrible response, but the way to my characters and their relationship.

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Alpha Log in to many topics, transmission, injury, disease, adolescence … but you talk about a unique “subject”. What is it?
Related to a maternal figure. Sideways LustfulAeration of TitleI discussed the release of paternal sight. But when it comes to herself, we are talking about membership of one part, from original symbiosis, but also to merge once. How much can we “kill his father” but we can’t “kill his mother” without killing him? So you have to complete yourself completely. What happens to the end of the movie with Alpha from the movement of its liberation? My films always close so that at that time the fate of my character will open.

Motherhood and it is the reason for the fact that we find in your three films … Do you feel that you are moving around the topic where you are constantly returning?
Both of them. The idea of ​​reproducing the same recipes is completely sterile for me. I think you should dig but in unknown places. This is when it is difficult. You have to go further to yourself in the world but first yourself. It is obvious that movies, painting or doing something boundless psychoanalytic. I always quote this sentence from the director.

You have announced in the interview, still having a leg in a teenager. How is it translated?
Adolescence is a place for me, no definition, passage, and I feel the eternal transition. If I had to set myself, I was somewhere in a 5 year old child and 86-year-old-lady. I am a mixture of 2 that must match when we make an average of 13, 14 years old. I believe that we are constant changes that we continue to decide who we are. This idea of ​​a transition area seems to me that it is a hyperleager land for characters, because in all my movies leave a point that will be transformed, but meaningless to the extent. Just for freedom.

The film causes AIDS epidemic, but also the climate crisis, harassment … What does he say about what we are going to come upon?
In my opinion, as long as trauma or crisis situations are not subject to repair, mourning, we can only pass them on. As long as suffering is not called, live and acceptance, it will lead to a domino effect that will never stop. So I had to face my characters as well as myself. Which was not on my other movies, out of modest. I am always afraid that the words will have a lot of explanation they come to soften emotions. In TitleWhen the characters say that “I love you,” these are expressions I took out, I brought him away, they left … Alpha At the end of it is a little. In the end, when the little one tells his mother “It’s okay, you did everything well, but I all dreamed of telling his mother.

Your mother has seen the movie.
My mother reads all my scenarios, she sees my movies in front of everyone. I guess that is huge, because I don’t want a misunderstanding, nor a sense of aggression in relation to the memories that I call. Alpha isMany individual film with full respect, but what has been done to everyone, both in my family and the actors. I ask them a lot. Their injuries, their past … I want us to communicate around our common suffering. I want to have unpleasant surprises there for anyone, but we are all in the same Katisis. And that’s, in fact, we give birth to ourselves.