Raw and Titane present the line between spectator and auteur, and the limits of what body horror means to the spectator. She made her directorial debut with Raw about a young vegetarian girl at a veterinarian school who tastes human flesh and eats a severed finger. Its weirdness and violence are not indifferent to anyone familiar with Ducournau’s work. Although, the assumption is that since the titanium is embedded in her skull, she can communicate with cars (and have sex), leading to her entire body being made out of the same material too. There is not much explanation as to why her body is created this way. It’s hard to make sense of the last sentence, but Alexia’s body goes through a transgressive change, as her breasts drip oil and her womb is made out of titanium. Meanwhile, she is in much deeper trouble when she realises that she is pregnant after having sex with a car. When the authorities chase after Alexia, she binds her breast, cuts her hair and breaks her nose and pretends to be the long-lost son of firefighter Vincent (Vincent Lindon). Cut to the present day, Alexia (now played by Agathe Rousselle) is a dancer at a car showroom, who casually murders people with a chopstick that she sticks in her hair. ![]() As a result, she has a scar above her right ear. At the hospital, Alexia goes through intensive surgery and the doctors insert a titanium plate over her skull. He tries his best to be patient and keep his eyes on the road, but when Alexia unbuckles the seat belt, her father turns around to calm her down but the commotion leads to an accident. In the first scene of the movie, a young Alexia sits in the back of her father’s car making noises and kicks the back of his seat. Ducournau’s Titane is the latest movie that fits into the genre with sequence after sequence of images that are not meant for the faint of heart. In his essay, he based the term on the kind of negative for horror movies that display a body of work that contains transgressive imagery. These kinds of experimentations in French Cinema are called, “The New French Extremity” coined by Toronto-critic James Quandt. French cinema has dominated the industry with graphic and violent imagery of brutality, lust, and cannibalism. With its intense display of body horror and transformation, the movie pushes the boundaries of sexual visual imagery on screen. Julia Ducournau’s Titane is one of the wildest movies of the year.
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