Titane review, Culture Whisper
While watching Titane, it’s as though filmmaker Julia Ducournau is striving for collective, reactive shouts of 'what the actual f***'. And not only does she attain them, she stops, drops and rolls in them – bending you, shaking you, squeezing you. More than matching her 2016 cannibal-horror debut Raw, this is a dark, near-Cronenbergian meditation on human bodies and our love/hate relationships with them.
Ducournau clearly loves shooting bodies in whatever state, the gaze respectful rather than perverted. In contrast, Titane's main character Alexia (newcomer Agathe Rouselle) isn’t really turned on by anything with skin.
