Titane

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Cast & Crew

Agathe Rousselle

Alexia, Adrien

Vincent Lindon

Vincent Legrand

Garance Marillier

Justine

Laïs Salameh

Rayane

Bertrand Bonello

Le père d'Alexia

Dominique Frot

La dame Macarena

Julia Ducournau

Director

Julia Ducournau

Screenwriter

Jean-Christophe Reymond

Producer

Ruben Impens

Cinematographer

Jean-Christophe Bouzy

Film Editor

Jim Williams

Original Music

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Critic Reviews for Titane

Audience Reviews for Titane

• Mar 27, 2022

  I like the unflinching body horror and Rousselle's performance (which is mostly nonverbal) but this is less coherent than a lot of people are willing to admit. At some point your provocations have to add up to something more than just "boy was that crazy or what?"

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  Super Reviewer
• Dec 28, 2021

  What's the point of a weird, gonzo movie when it stops being weird? That's my takeaway from French director Julia Docournau's (Raw) Palme D'Or winning oddity, a movie that has been nicknamed, "That film where the lady gets impregnated by a car." That does inexplicably happen, and I was waiting for more bizarre interludes, but then Titane becomes a completely different movie. The first half hour involves the car copulation and then becomes a slasher movie, as it's revealed our heroine has been killing locals for months. We watch her kill her friend, on a whim, and then her roommate walks downstairs, a witness needing killing, and then another and another, and this for me was the darkly comic high-point of the film. From there she goes on the run, poses as a man's missing adult son, and the movie becomes entirely about hiding her real identity, whether this grieving father fully suspects or even cares, and learning the ropes of fire department protocol. To say the second half of the movie is a creative letdown is an understatement. Titane feels like Docournau was combining different stray story elements from half-finished scripts and trying to, through sheer force of will, cram them together. The car fetish is never quite explained, which is fine, but once she's impregnated, the movie becomes more of a standard drama about hiding her burgeoning pregnant belly to keep her cover. It seems quite strange for me to say that a movie about a woman impregnated by a car isn't strange enough, and yet there it is. Titane will appeal to fans of David Cronenberg's body horror and the French noveau horror scene, but I found its exploitation excess to be short-lived, and the creativity on display felt more stuck in neutral than as advertised. Nate's Grade: C

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  nathan z Super Reviewer
• Oct 12, 2021

  Crash! Boom! Bang! - Film Review: Titane ★★★★1/2 For me, good art is pretty, but great art is confrontational, forcing the viewer to reflect upon the human condition and reveal truths, however inspiring or ugly. The 2021 Cannes Palme d'Or winner, Titane, writer/director Julia Ducournau's sophomore effort, definitely veers towards the latter type of confrontation. With enough brutal violence to fill all of the Halloween sequels combined, this viscerally charged film will likely polarize audiences, but its vision and power cannot be denied. A highly visual, almost wordless film, Titane begins with Alexia, a young, androgynous girl, pestering her father by kicking the back of his driver's seat. Annoyed, he turns to scold her, swerving off the road and injuring his daughter. Saved by a titanium implant in her head, we next see Alexia as a young adult (phenomenally played by Agathe Rouselle), in a scene highly reminiscent of the opening single shot from Brian De Palma's Femme Fatale, strutting toward her job as a dancer at an Auto Show. With punk rock aggressiveness, she forces her way through the crowd and ends up gyrating on the hood of car. A combination of antisocial, disturbed, or just not having the time of day for anyone else's problems, Alexia, in a series of horrifically bloody scenes, establishes herself as a relentless serial killer, gets impregnated by a car (not a typo!), and uses a chopstick for all the wrong reasons. She seduces men and women alike while never cracking a smile or exhibiting an ounce of joy. You may not like this feminist anti-hero, but you won't ever forget her. I wouldn't blame you for walking out at this point, as it's not for the delicate stomach, but if you stay, you'll be richly rewarded with this decidedly queer body horror thriller. Disguising herself as a young man to evade police capture, Alexia eventually gets taken in by a lonely fire captain named Vincent (Vincent London). This hulking, muscular, man believes Alexia to be his long-missing son, causing Alexia to use binding cloth to hide her breasts and expanding belly. Vincent has troubles of his own as he's often seen injecting himself with an unnamed substance which could possible be steroids or heroin. The bond the pair forms proves surprisingly touching, especially in a scene involving CPR and the song, "Macarena". Where all this leads may not surprise you, but it manages to land in that no man's land between beauty and dread. Besides De Palma, it's easy to spot Ducournau's other influences such as Gasper Noé's Irreversible, David Cronenberg's Crash, and Jean-Jacques Beineix's Betty Blue. I also couldn't help but see the link between the film and Jonathan Glazer's hypnotic Under The Skin, both involving otherworldly women on killing sprees. Her muscular, in your face style has that 80s punk aesthetic, forcing you to slam against the back of your seat with its non-stop drive and cover your eyes half the time. Aided immensely by cinematographer Ruben Impens, Ducournau has a style of her own, simultaneously over-the-top and bleak and keyed in tight to the emotional cores of her lead actors. Inspirations be damned, Ducournau has a singularly driving yet tender cinematic voice. Titane is a film about trauma, anger, human bonds, gender identity, and the ability for even the most troubled among us to tap into their humanity. It's a work of art in its assaultive, unforgettable, confrontational way.

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  glenn g Super Reviewer