Alpha (now streaming on VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video) is French director Julia Ducournau’s follow-up to 2021’s titanic Titane, the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or winner that still has us wondering if its protagonist did, indeed, have intercourse with an automobile. Ducournau’s provocative visuals inevitably draw comparison to David Cronenberg’s groundbreaking fetishy body-horror indulgences – and she’s very much aware of that.