The director of "Raw" and "Titane" gives a knock-out follow-up to her Palm d'Or winner that defies expectations.

All credit to a newly minted Palme d'Or-winner for having the courage to step out of their comfort zone, but "Alpha" is an insufferable misfire.

Julia Ducournau won the Palme d'Or with her transgressive body horror Titane but the only thing tortured in Alpha is its AIDS ...

After winning the Palme d'Or for the shocking Titane, French director Julia Ducournau is back at Cannes with another nightmarishly weird film – but it's an unsatisfying watch.

Julia Ducournau returns to Cannes with a muddled meditation on the AIDS pandemic, squandering the talents of Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim.

Four years after winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, Julia Ducournau is back on the Croisette, debuting her latest Cannes Film Festival Competition entry Alpha. Inside the Palais late Monday ...

Once again, French director Julia Ducournau takes us into the lower depths ... returns to the Cannes Film Festival competition with Alpha, a film just as likely as Titane to divide audiences ...

The Cannes crowd gave Ducournau and her team enthusiastic applause ... and provocative than her Palme d’Or winner Titane, Alpha proved just as moving, with several of the castmembers drying ...

By Jordan Mintzer Four years ago, French writer-director Julia Ducournau came to Cannes with ... The director applies that same approach to Alpha, a numblingly over-the-top AIDS-era parable ...

The coming-of-age drama follows a teenager called Alpha who becomes infected with a bloodborne disease after sharing a needle ...