Performing: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Dominique Frot, Myriem Akeddiou, Anaïs Fabre, Nathalie Boyer
Julia Ducournau's film begins with an emotional explosion, after which the tension rises relentlessly—until the very last second of this astonishing story that attacks all the senses. Titane bursts the screen: demolishing genre boundaries, breaking into men's cinematic fantasies, puncturing the balloon of expectations. Alexia (Agathe Rousselle), possessor of titanium plates, bad memories and an extremely alluring body that does not corrode, does not allow herself to be liked or not to be loved. Her life is like the Paris-Dakar rally: you desperately struggle to survive and never know what will be around the bend. A fairy tale, perhaps? A horror film, perhaps? A melodrama? A feminist parable of inner transformation? Although it seems impossible, the imagination of David Cronenberg, Luc Besson and Claire Denis meet in Titane.