TITANE
| 2021 – 108′ – Drama, Horror, Fantasy
Written by Julia Ducourneau.
Directed by Julia Ducourneau.
Starring Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rouselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Myriem Akheddiou, Bertrand Bonello.
World Premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2021. Winner Palme d’Or. Special Screening COLCOA French Film Festival 2021
In French with English subtitles.
A Neon release.|
The 2021 Cannes Palme d’Or winner was Julia Ducournau’s fearless, wilder-than-wild roller-coaster ride of a movie — a body horror film and grisly serial killer movie all rolled into one, with powerhouse performances from newcomer Agathe Rousselle and the always powerful Vincent Lindon. The film brings together the parallel stories of a stripper with post-traumatic stress disorder, a car fetish, and a titanium plate in her head, and a seriously pumped-up firefighter on steroids whose son went missing many years earlier. The result is a gruesome — yet absurdist and thought-provoking — celebration of ultra-violent physical horrors, the interrelationship of pleasure and pain, human frailty, gender politics and the nature of love.