![]() ![]() You have this incredible sense of movement, from a real dance to these bodies falling down the stairs. And I really love the way it’s almost like a dance film, watching these bodies be thrown around, especially at the beginning. ![]() Titane is out now from NEON.įilmmaker: When I watched this film, there’s a lot here, but first and foremost it’s a film about flesh and how we modify it with technology, with testosterone, with piercings, with metal plates, etc. Titane is a film about how a camera looks at women and men, and their power to shift and reconstruct themselves in dialogue with that gaze and the gaze of others. Ducournau crafts a film whose form is constantly in dialogue with its protagonists and the tools they use to build themselves anew-or to destroy others. Auto show stripper Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) careens from a post-car-coitus killing spree to hiding from the police by pretending to be Adrien, the long-lost son of firefighter Vincent (Vincent Lindon), while pregnant with the child of the car she fucked. ![]() Titane hurtles along in pursuit of its titanium-encrusted protagonist as an adult. Taking its title from the metal plate installed in a young girl’s head after her father (Bertrand Bonello, in a fun bit of casting) crashes their car amid her aggressive fury, it is, yes, the movie where a woman fucks a car (two, actually) but also a remarkably devoted ode to physical transformations in all their forms. The Palme d’Or–winning Titane strays even further from traditional narrative logic, emerging as a baroque investigation of the power of bodies to morph in response to the desires and violence of both people and machines. In Directors, Features, Interviews, Issues, Screenwritersįollowing her breakout film, the high school cannibal romp Raw (2016), filmmaker Julia Ducournau doubles down on her predilections for freely reconstructed human flesh. ![]()
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