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Titane

100 Movies of 2021

Titane

2021

Julia Ducournau

Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier, Myriem Akeddiou ...

5.8

11,467

Thriller. Drama. Fantasy A young man with a bruised face is discovered in an airport. He says his name is Adrien Legrand, a child who disappeared 10 years ago. As he's finally reunited with his father, gruesome murders are piling up in the region.

	Media	Author	Review
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Anyone complaining about any lack of realism or believability doesn’t understand where Ducournau wants to take the viewer (...) both richly cinematic and pregnant with nuance and meaning."
		Peter Debruge Variety	"It’s a daringly queer and undoubtedly controversial ride, resulting in a most uncommon monster movie — a cross between David Cronenberg’s “Crash” and the uterine horrors of Takashi Miike’s “Gozu,” perhaps"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"A shimmering aria of fire and metal that introduces itself as the psychopathic lovechild of David Cronenberg’s 'Crash' and Shinya Tsukamoto’s 'Tetsuo' (...) this is a movie that needs to be seen on a big screen"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"It arguably has interesting suggestions about gender identity (...) But everything is so laboured and crudely directed, without the style and sympathy of Raw (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Pat Brown Slant	"The opening scenes (...) possess an energy and inventiveness that the remainder never matches, despite its consistently rich, fiery look and fleshy sound design (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Jessica Kiang The Playlist	"Ducournau’s follow-up to her sensational debut “Raw,” is roughly seven horror movies plus one bizarrely tender parent-child romance soldered into one machine and painted all over with flames"
		Jason Gorber SlashFilm	"Thanks to committed performances by Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, and the rest of the cast, there’s plenty to bite into on both the character and narrative level (...) The film does excess without being excessive"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"Titane is the kind of film that makes quibbles over plausibility seem foolish: you just have to sit back and enjoy being ridden over (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"The film is so crammed with undeveloped possibilities, bold as they all are, that it makes for a frustrating spectacle, although one you can never take your eyes off"
		Anna Smith Deadline	"There is much to decode regarding birth, maternity, independence, sexual preference, unconscious bias (...) Titane is ambitious, and not quite in Raw’s league, but it’s never dull."
		Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"'Titane'’s first act is a full-bore blitzkrieg of savagery. What follows is a dazzling, horrifying, tender, often brilliant, occasionally baffling and always wildly singular vision of lives and bodies in transition (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"It does confirm Ducournau as a director with a gorgeous sense of picture and sound (...) A film about transformations, 'Titane' starts as a hot rod and ends as a Volvo"
		Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"Sexual and gender identity gets explored through provocative body horror, delivering a viscerally violent and darkly comedic yet tender experience that's difficult to forget (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Shelagh Rowan-Legg Screen Anarchy	"A spitfire, no-holds-barred, astounding, sexy, tender, freakish, cinema of the grotesque (...) It will boggle your mind and break your heart"
		John Serba Decider	"A disturbing body horror exercise that's a gross-out, psych-out squirmfest (...) Don't mind me, I'm going to take the week to recover from this"
		Hanna Flint Empire	"A little messy and increasingly absurd in places, but [it] is a brash body horror with intense central performances, certain to leave you wide-eyed and slack-jawed at such a risky cinematic endeavour (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"

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