Titane. 2021. France. Written and directed by Julia Ducournau. With Agathe Rouselle, Vincent Lindon. In French; English subtitles. 108 min.
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Julia Ducournau’s electrifying, Palme d’Or–winning exercise in body horror straddles abject nihilism and tender humanity, all while taking its audience on one hell of a ride. When seven-year-old Alexia smashes her head in a car accident, she has a titanium plate attached to her skull, setting the stage for a lifelong fetish. We meet her again a few decades later, and the intervening years have not been kind; her main pastimes include random murder and having sex with cars. On the run as her body count rises, she leaves her life behind and takes on the guise of a missing teenage boy, beginning a deceitful relationship with a grieving father (Vincent Lindon). But, like a lucky penny turning up in a puddle of blood, something miraculous emerges between the two. Newcomer Agathe Rousselle plays Alexia’s psychopathy with a precise yet impossible-to-anticipate wildness, fully embodying her various physical transformations. Courtesy NEON