In the space of two years, French actor Tahar Rahim has transformed himself completely to inhabit a pair of drastically different characters, the iconic French-Armenian crooner Charles Aznavour, and Amine, a man engulfed in drug addiction who is dying of a mysterious disease.
The latter performance is the force behind Julia Ducournau’s allegorical drama “Alpha” which world premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday evening and earned an 11-minute standing ovation.
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Rahim, who saw his career explode 16 years after a breakthrough performance in Jacques Audiard’s Cannes prizewinning thriller “A Prophet,” had transformed himself before, notably in “The Serpent,” starring
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