#JULIA DUCOURNAU FAMILY MOVIE#

Now, it’s France’s entry for the 2022 Oscar for best international feature. Titane won the 2021 Palme d’Or, making Ducournau just the second female winner in Cannes history (28 years after Jane Campion was the first with The Piano). She had the idea for Titane while making Raw - a dream where she imagined giving birth to auto parts was an initial spark - but it was a long journey to bring her radical vision to the screen.

Titane is so brazen, bold and fearless - a go-for-broke mashup of body horror, family melodrama and radical gender theory - that it’s surprising to hear that Ducournau, after the success of Raw, spent a year crippled by anxiety and unable to work. 'Our Target Is a History of the Future': 'THR Presents' Q&A With the Director of 'The Wandering Earth 2' Hiding her identity from her adopted dad is made even harder by her swelling belly and the motor oil leaking from various body parts (don’t ask). Oh, and Alexia also has sex with - and is impregnated by - a Cadillac.

Ducournau’s second feature follows Alexia, a car-obsessed exotic dancer and sometime serial killer (played by first-timer Agathe Rousselle) who, on the run from the police, breaks her nose and binds her breasts to pass herself off as Adrien, a boy who has been missing for years and whose father, Vincent (Vincent Lindon), is only too happy to take her in. But no one, it’s safe to say, expected Titane.

#JULIA DUCOURNAU FAMILY MOVIE#

After her debut film, Raw, a bloody feminist horror movie about a vegetarian college student who develops a taste for human flesh, it’s hard to know what fans of French director Julia Ducournau were expecting her to do next.

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