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TITANIUM A SHOCK AND GORE FILM

"La Croisette " has passed its trash test: Titane, an oppressive and radical revenge movie with French actor Vincent Lindon, based on woman / machine hybridization, love for cars and the quest for paternity, has exploded the level of hemoglobin in competition. The director unambiguously associates Vincent Lindon and debutante Agathe Rousselle in a strange story of motherhood and the fusion between human beings and automobiles. This disturbing film should be reserved for an informed public

The film opens with a car accident suffered by the main character, Alexia, in her childhood. Her father is driving, she almost dies and owes her survival only to a titanium plate that is inserted into her brain and which can be guessed above her ear.

Between "Crash" "and" Basic Instinct "we find her as a young adult literally making love with cars, a tribute to Crash by David Cronenberg, and killing men, like Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct but with a hair stick. On the run after these murders, Agathe Rousselle, will meet Vincent (Vincent Lindon), a firefighter who, between two testosterone bites in the buttock, mourns his missing child. He can offer her a refuge, she can repair her loss: on "scorched earth", "unconditional love" will be born, explains the director.

Intense experience, Titane allows you to discover Agathe Rousselle who stands out as obvious. Switching from the feminine to the masculine extremely, she abuses the notion of gender with a mixture of gentleness and brutality that could earn her an acting award for her first role in a feature film. In front of her, Vincent Lindon, inconsolable daddy, is impressive. "One of my goals has always been to bring genre cinema or 'UFO' films to general festivals to stop ostracizing a section of French production," adds Julia Ducournau. “Gender also allows us to talk about the individual and very deeply about our fears and our desires”. "I really tried to make a film that shoots an arrow, which is above all an experience that you come out of like a physical ordeal",said the director to the magazine Three colors

No wonder that on the other side of the Atlantic, the director was dubbed by a master of terror, Night Shyamalan, who entrusted her with the realization of two episodes of his series Servant !