Titane
Directed by Julia Ducournau
- drama
- thriller
- horror
The story
A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
What it’s like
Glossy, saturated night-time imagery drives this film: chrome car bodies under sodium streetlight, hot pinks and cold blues, blood-slick metal and sweat-sheened skin under harsh fluorescents in fire-station corridors. Julia Ducournau frames with a cool, deliberate stillness and then cuts into handheld, close-in intimacy, so the body is always the centre of the picture. The score pulses with synth throbs and industrial rumble, and the silences are sudden and unnerving. Vibe: feverish, hard-edged, unsettling, with a strange tenderness underneath. Intensity is high: frequent graphic violence and gore, including brutal killings, bodily horror, body modification and explicit sexual content, plus pregnancy-related shocks and recurring menace. This is not gentle, and dread lands more often than comfort. It suits viewers who want a bold, disturbing body-horror film, late at night, with someone who can take sustained shock and discomfort. It is for people who like genre cinema that treats identity, gender and trauma as raw material rather than backdrop.
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