Titane

Directed by JULIA DUCOURNAU

Starring AGATHE ROUSSELLE, VINCENT LINDON, GARANCE MARILLIER

Released 31 DECEMBER

There is an easy way to sell any cinephile on : this is a darkly funny midnight movie; an amalgamation of capital-G genre pictures; a sexy and strange romp where the structural rug pulls beg to remain unspoiled and picked apart in equal measure. None of that is wrong, exactly. Julia Ducournau’s second feature is a total blast, silly and tight and sufficiently gnarly, with sound design that allows a beat after every crunch for the audience to gasp. What makes Ducournau’s Palme d’Or winner so special, however, is that it is never quite the movie you expect it to be. It opts, again and again, for