![]() ![]() ![]() Titane has a dangerous, transgressive feel that makes it something of a trip to behold, even if it’s one uncomfortable ride. Trigger warnings should be loud and clear if you can’t handle a narrative featuring hair-pin DIY abortions, then don’t even think about opening this particular box. Nightmare fuel comes in different forms, but Titane is high-end stuff, brilliantly filmed and originally conceived while there are echoes of Demon Seed, this is very much uncharted territory. The boy’s father (Vincent Lindon) is a body-builder who injects steroids into his bottom, but although he seems to accept Alexia, the boy’s mother quickly sees through her disguise… That means cutting her hair, taping down her breasts and growing belly, and breaking her own nose in a gas-station mirror. In a plot-twist that seems to lift from 2012’s The Impostor, she notices a wanted poster relating to a boy who has been missing for years, and decides to pass herself off as him. Alexia kills a co-worker and goes on the run. She then has sex with a car and starts emitting motor-oil from her lady-parts that seems to indicate that she is pregnant by the car. She kills an obnoxious male fan who attempts to stalk her in a car park. She works at some kind of motor-show in which she writhes on top of a car with flames painted on the roof. ![]() She kills brutally and without obvious motive. So warnings apply, for spoilers and more, those that chose to read further, even a basic, bare-bones synopsis may cause some alarm…Īlexia (Agathe Rousselle) is a serial killer. Previous winners include last year’s Possessor and the previous year’s Borders, and if you’ve seen either of them, you’ll know exactly how to prepare for writer/director Julia Ducournau’s unmistakably freaky-deaky horror opus. Yikes, it’s that time of year again where we hand out our annual award for the mind-zonkingly disturbing art-house film of the year. ![]()
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