Written and Directed by Julia Ducournau
Starring Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier and Lais Salameh
France
The writer/director of RAW returns with TITANE. And guess what? This one’s even crazier than the last one! Once again the tale of a woman with unique tastes, TITANE follows a car show model who suffered a brain injury in a car accident as a child and now finds herself both sexually attracted to cars and drawn to murder. That’s right, she’s a serial killer! And if you don’t want any spoilers, stop reading right now, because I’m going to spoil everything.
Why am I going to spoil everything? Because, it’s hard to talk about what I like about this movie otherwise. See, I had no idea what to expect, going into this movie – yes, the trailer looked crazy and the movie clearly had violence in it, and half naked women writhing around on cars, I knew all that stuff. But most of that stuff is in the first act, and after that, the movie blew my mind with where it went.
When the heat’s on, our serial killing heroine decides to change her appearance in order to pass herself off as the now-aged-up missing kid of a local fire chief. The fire chief takes her in, even though it’s fairly clear she’s not his kid, and this starts a whole second half of the movie I didn’t see coming at all.
Another thing I didn’t see coming was the implication that, after apparently having sex with a car, our heroine (or anti-heroine?) is now apparently pregnant with what you have to assume might end up being a half human/half car baby. The movie doesn’t quite go that far, but it might as well.
This twist actually ended up making this movie a good companion piece with another horror flick that came out right around the same time, LAMB, which I’ll also review for Horrorfest 2021. So, while RAW and TITANE make a good double feature, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to do a LAMB and TITANE double feature, too.
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