Exploding onto MUBI following its theatrical release, Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or-winner Titane (2021) is a conceptually audacious sophomore feature dripping with insouciant attitude, igniting a Molotov cocktail of gender politics, familial compassion, and female desire.
Agathe Rousselle stars as a dancer who, after being injured in a car accident as a child, has a titanium plate fitted into her head. Amidst a series of brutal and unexplained murders, her path irrevocably crosses with Vincent, a firefighter desperately searching for his long-missing son.
Shocking, visceral and subversive, Ducournau's acclaimed follow-up to her debut Raw (2016) is both a daring provocation and a transgressive reflection on gender, wrapped in a high-octane body horror story that will shake you to your core.
