Cannes-winning chaotic drama is a new reflection on body horror

Flesh is just another binary.

Horniness for cars is just one outrageous aspect of this year’s Cannes winner, Titane

Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or-winning film is "a nightmarish yet mischievously comic barrage of sex, violence, lurid lighting and pounding music".

Writer-director Julia Ducournau’s film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year. Forthrightly bizarre, it’s about a young woman who gets impregnated by a...

This year’s Palme d’Or winner is a symphony of disturbing and dark madness unlike anything you’ve ever seen — and I mean that in a good way.

It’s a ride worth taking—if you can stomach it.

★★★★☆ Titane may only be her second feature, but French director Julia Ducournau has already asserted herself as among the strangest and most excit...

The Palme d'Or winner features a strong performance by veteran actor Vincent Lindon.

Director Julia Ducournau returns with her Palme d'Or-winning follow-up to Raw, starring Agathe Rousselle and Vincent Lindon. Read the Empire review.

Julia Ducournau's berserk body horror film is soaked in so much blood and motor oil, you might find yourself checking under your fingernails by the end.

Julia Ducournau’s ‘elevated horror’ shifts gears abruptly from outré horror to tender drama about damaged people

Julia Ducournau brings her follow-up to her lauded cannibal-coming-of-age story 'Raw' to the main competition.

It’s directed by France’s Julia Ducournau, who’s already made traumatising audiences her signature

Almost certainly the sweetest movie ever made about a serial killer who has sex with a car.

If you can get past the grisly serial killings and body horror there is more to this movie than meets the eye

Palme d’Or winner is a transgressive, delirious romp

A report from the 59th New York Film Festival

The movie’s likely patron saints are David Cronenberg and Claire Denis.

Winner of top prize at 2021 Cannes Film Festival, Julia Ducournau's body-horror freakout amply confirms the promise of her cannibal thriller, "Raw."

It does not put you at a disadvantage to know the plot of the movie going in, though it is certainly misleading. In an era of mainstream horror when…

Director Julia Ducournau tests the limits of the viewer, is persistently provocative. But she also wrings your heart with lines swarming with grief, with pain

In Julia Ducournau’s bold vision, a serial killer who’s impregnated by a Cadillac is at the center of a fireman’s crisis of paternity.

‘Titane’ is the bizarre but incredible tale that tackles the fragility of the flesh, the performance of gender, and palpable bodily anxieties in mind-ben...

Titane is an extreme movie, violent and pitiless and funny, but the space it provides for not just tenderness but contemplation makes it an extremely thought...

Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or winner twists horror, erotica, and psychological thrills into a new French classic. K. Austin Collins' review

For her follow-up to Raw, Julia Ducournau delivers 'a deranged cocktail of outrage, excess, conceptual ferocity and sheer silliness'

Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner is out on MUBI.

Cannes: 'Titane' expands on Julia Ducournau’s idiosyncratic interest in the collision of flesh-rending violence and familial reconfiguration.

Titane is a head-pumping, face-splitting, heart-tugging visceral experience of a film that might be better left, well, experienced for yourself.

After stunning Cannes audiences back in 2016 with Raw, director Julia Ducournau returns with the shocking Titane. Read our Titane review.

A film-maker who sets out to shock ought not be shocked when we are shocked.

'Titane' opens with a woman having sex with a car and going on a killing spree. It ends on a much more tender note.

Titane begins not with a whimper but a cacophony: a deafening engine rev; the crash as car meets concrete; then the image of a girl in a horrific head-brace,...

The Globe and Mail’s critics review films screening both in-person and online at the 46th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival

Titane may be the strangest film to ever be awarded Cannes’ Palme d’Or, but Julia Ducournau’s sophomore feature sketches a messy but compelling treatis...

Julia Ducournau's sophomore effort isn't for the faint of heart

Julia Ducournau’s Titane is a swaggering, empty stunt works hard to titillate us

Phantasmagorical French body horror

’Raw’ director Julia Ducournau is back with another freaky-yet-humane cult classic.

Julia Ducournau dares to challenge the boundaries of sexuality and taste with this bulletproof, nothing-to-lose body-horror shocker.