A Movie That Makes You Sympathize With a Monster
<em>Titane</em> opens with a woman having sex with a car and going on a killing spree. It ends on a much more tender note.
by David Sims
Oct 07, 2021
3 minutes
Julia Ducournau does not make movies that audiences are likely to see themselves in. Her knockout debut feature, , follows a veterinary student who develops a , mostly of the human variety. Like so many horror films, the work is suffused with metaphors about hard-to-discuss topics—in this case, sexual maturity and peer pressure. But compared with Ducournau’s follow-up, , , seems like a breezy, accessible fable. In her new film, Ducournau aimed” to morally relate to. She succeeded.
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