Following up on her 2016 feature debut, Raw, which chronicled a veterinary-cum-vegetarian student’s pivot to cannibalism, Julia Ducournau pushes her fascination for the pliability of human flesh to even further extremes with Titane. The film, awarded the Palme d’Or in Cannes earlier this year—only the second time the top prize is given to a woman director—kicks off with a near-fatal car accident, after which Alexia is left with a titanium plate fixed to her skull and a seemingly insatiable appetite for the vehicular. Next we see her, she’s turned into a serial killer and a car show dancer. In one outrageous early sequence, she’s impregnated by a Cadillac. Following a killing spree that sends her on the lam, she disfigures herself to pass as a boy gone missing years prior, Adrien, and finds an unlikely refuge in Vincent (Vincent Lindon), a middle-aged firefighter who welcomes her back as his son,...
- 10/27/2021
- MUBI
I’ve been trying to wrap my head around Julia Ducournau’s sophomore feature film Titane now for several days, and I’m still trying to figure out just what exactly I should - or even could - say about her full-throttle idiosyncratic exploration of love and family that’s also a body horror mash-up about a woman whose childhood trauma now manifests in sexual encounters with automobiles (and that’s not even all of it). I had even bandied about a joke in my head on how Titane puts the auto in autoerotica, but even my lame Dad joke still only captures just a portion of what’s really going on in this film. There’s a key moment in the film where Ducournau pivots her narrative in an entirely new direction that becomes the beating heart of her visual thesis in Titane: the collision of the humane...
- 10/1/2021
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Titane Trailer 2 — Neon has released the second movie trailer for Titane (2021). View here the first Titane trailer. Cast and crew Julia Ducournau‘s Titane stars Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cisse, Marin Judas, Diong-Kéba Tacu, Myriem Akheddiou, Bertrand Bonello, Céline Carrère, Adèle Guigue, Thibault Cathalifaud, and Dominique Frot. Julia [...]
Continue reading: Titane (2021) Movie Trailer 2: Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or Award Winner starring Agathe Rousselle...
Continue reading: Titane (2021) Movie Trailer 2: Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or Award Winner starring Agathe Rousselle...
- 9/12/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Titane Trailer — Julia Ducournau‘s Titane (2021) movie trailer has been released by Neon. The Titane trailer stars Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cisse, Marin Judas, Diong-Kéba Tacu, Myriem Akheddiou, Bertrand Bonello, Céline Carrère, Adèle Guigue, Thibault Cathalifaud, and Dominique Frot. Crew Julia Ducournau wrote the screenplay for Titane. Séverin Favriau [...]
Continue reading: Titane (2021) Movie Trailer: A Father Reunites with His Son who has been Missing for 10 Years in Julia Ducournau’s Film...
Continue reading: Titane (2021) Movie Trailer: A Father Reunites with His Son who has been Missing for 10 Years in Julia Ducournau’s Film...
- 7/25/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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