Smoking hot garbage. PornHub has better acting and scripts.
Started out really good, but I lost interest and found it to be a bit boring from the second act onwards until the intense ending.
I had no idea that that's how cars were made.
For all the hype, this movie becomes
A snooze fest and absolutely dumb from the halfway point.
Watching this movie, I didn't really understand why they chose it for the awards it has won. It really is a great movie, but... why?
And then, now, hours after I've watched it, I still find myself thinking about the things in this movie. And I understand why this movie is such a happening. The metal body, the sex in the car, the feminine dance in front of the men, the father and son relation... I'm just glad that this movie exists.
honestly i have no idea what i just watched. :upside_down:
Delirious French Dark Film with a script that seems to be taken from the back of the corridor of a video store in the 1980s.
The author tried too hard for this one, too many themes, too many rough breaks, too many radically different influences. Shocking scenes and visuals for shock value only are so cliched and not worth watching. I think that stylistically it would've been better to go full kitsch in some parts, but I guess that the issue of the budget.
The pacing is so inconsistent, first half of the film is promising, the middle is boring and annoying, I couldn't wait the film to end for at least half an hour of it. Film has a lot of long scenes without any reason for it, should've been at least 10 minutes shorter.
There are some really good stuff, those topics that deal with basic needs of a human individual, to be loved, to be accepted, to be safe.
But that serial killer stuff, Alexia's psycho motivations aren't explained at all, this plot choice served as a cheap set-up for the rest of the film. Lot of gender topics were touched upon without ever deciding what to do with them.
The final scene is biblical and probably saved the film from irrelevancy, although I hoped that Alexia would get killed with that damn hairthing by Rayane.
Don't get how so flawed film got so many important awards. The competition must've stunk.
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If you are averse to nudity - this film has a lot.
This movie is definitely not going to be for everyone
This was quite a bizarre, weird, sad story. But an interesting watch nonetheless.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
Am I the only one who got a lot of Les Misérables vibes? A lonely aging man, a pretty young orphan. A found family that got weird at the end? No? Cool cool cool.
Anyway... I was terrified and amazed the whole time. Loved it.
Lucky to have an early Belgian theatrical release and see this one so quickly. I think it’s very cool that something insane as Titane can win the Palme d’Or in Cannes nowadays. Titane is crazy and fun, but not exactly a masterpiece imo. I liked the first hour way more than the second because there’s this massive tone shift halfway which I still don’t quite understand and maybe it was all just a bit too much in the end? However Titane is at least an improvement on Grave/Raw and definitely a beautifully-made movie with stellar performances and a very exciting Palme d’Or winner!
Really weird movie. Didn't understand it at all. Don't recommend.
Interesting how a movie fucked-up on so many levels could win the Palme. “Titane” lacks the same visceral warmth and energy as Ducournau’s previous feature film “Raw”, and instead goes for a darker and more stylish approach while retaining the same sharp sense of black humor. I’ve read enlightened interpretations of every little plot detail, but honestly, I thought of it as a rather simple story where hyperbole and shock value are mere tools to make the audience reflect on trivial yet universal themes. Unconditional love is explored not as a pure and abstract value, but rather as the primal need of imperfect human beings affected by trauma. What started as Alexia’s story slowly turns into Vincent’s, who finally gets a second chance to love his child for what he was.
Interpretations aside, “Titane” is, just like “Raw”, a work that speaks to film geeks rather than aiming at delivering poignant social commentaries or representing specific categories. Like its protagonists, it should be taken and loved for what it is: a damn entertaining genre film where body horror, psychological drama, and self-conscious black humor blend into each other.
This was a weird f**king movie, but the visuals were beautiful.
The worst movie I have ever watched of this gender. Total waste of time.
This is absolutely unique and unbearably intense. It made me squirm so much and I had no clue where it's going to take me. I probably won't watch it again but I'm glad something like this exists. Do not miss this one and go in as blind as you can.
I think I was going to like this film before I saw it because of how much I love Grave / Raw.
So, I liked it. But...
I prefer story driven films, and the story of Raw was beautifully constructed and presented.
Titane is character driven, which Julia Ducournau loves because it frees her from the narrative form and lets her turn up the music and lighting and body horror to 11. I'm totally here for that, though the pyrotechnics here didn't floor me the way the exploding hearts did in Grave.
For example, I saw Raw in the cinema and close to a dozen people walked out because of how intense it was. Titane kept them in their seats... which I guess is a good thing?
This movie was quite the trip. The last 2/3 of the movie could really be its own movie. Parts of me said it was a beautiful movie and then parts of me asked what the hell am I watching?
Wow what can I say, actually finished watching it speechless, I thought after the first couple of scenes oh no, I don't think I will be emotionally attached to the main character, I was wrong she was amazing, and I don't think if someone wrote the script down would i think it could be executed or even watchable, so many questions
Just realised Garance Marillier's character is called Justine just like in 'Raw'. Guess it's the same character, same universe...
First half >>>> Second half but hot damn Julia Ducournau is something. A lot of this is genuinely brilliant.
One of the strangest and most beautiful movies about two people who have nothing in common with each other but manage to form an unhealthy bond.
Vincent Lindon delivers one of my favourite performances of the movie, and of 2021.
Ok, that was definitely a wonderfully disturbing trip. A heartbreaking story riddled with visual and emotional pain and suffering, for both, the audience and the protagonists. But somehow also safety and intimacy. I'm not sure if I can even grasp the whole thing properly. It was definitely something different that I wasn't prepared for. Like a fever dream where you can't really tell whether you're feeling something good or something bad. I have to watch it more than once to really get into it, but maybe I let some time pass first.
There is no story, it seems they just paste ideas using the some actors, woke garbage in full. Skip it.
WTF is this movie? I mean extra horror scary and almost made me puke couple of times. Weird for sure. Disturbed family.
It’s funny, when you break the elements of this film down on the page, it reads like a trashy B-film.
In reality it’s anything but that; this is essentially what you’d get if you’d let Nicolas Winding Refn direct a script that was written for David Cronenberg.
The results are great, the sound and visuals are absolutely incredible.
It’s also very good at building suspense, often accompanied by great acting and editing.
The story is fairly straightforward and grounded with lots of interesting layers about sexuality, gender roles and family.
Because of that, the whole ‘sex with a car’ and pregnancy/birth stuff feels a little tacked on and pretentious to me. I’d buy that in a surrealist and abstract film, but it isn’t trying to be that kind of film for the most part, nor are those aspects meant to be just symbolic. You could have that scene just play out with a man, and it wouldn’t make much of a difference. I don’t know, I just thought it was a bit laughable and up its own ass as is.
The rest of it is really solid.
7.5/10
Interesting film, a Cronenberg-style body horror mixed with a horror-supernatural with a charming Agathe Rousselle that I really enjoyed
6,5/10
I'm someone who doesn't like gore but i came across this movie because it was in a movie listing as one of the good horror/thrillers in 2021. While reading that, it mentioned "Raw" so i watched that first and like i said, for someone who doesn't like gore, "Raw" was pretty messed up to me. The plot wasn't bad but it was so messed up. Coming into this show with that in mind, i kinda expected stuff to go down but this one just seems worse than "Raw". It felt like the first 30 - 45mins was totally unnecessary, all that random killing (i watched it all go down in 2x speed because it just didn't make any sense to me except that it was to introduce to us how she functions with a titanium metal in her head?) until the point she met Vincent. That was the only part that started to seem more interesting BUT how she got pregnant was still too exaggerating. I actually enjoyed watchin how she was slowly bondin with Vincent but of course, with the course of the show it all headed towards all the weird directions. I wouldn't say i'm disappointed with the ending but this movie could've been so much better if it was done right. Now that i know Ducournau's way of putting a movie together, i know what to look for if i wanna watch some messed up movies XD
Raw and painful to watch at certain points.
raw, brutal and grotesque. just let your emotions flow and dont ask questions. in my honest opinion, the movie goes downhill after the first half but there are really interesting things there. love how julia touches on topics like masculinity or gender fluidity.
In the Olympus of bizarre relationships, with Cronenberg, Tsukamoto or Wittock, Ducournau has a seat, with a film that can only be read under the surface. It's not so important what is shown but what is suggested around sexuality, gender, acceptance, toxic masculinity and all-consuming femininity. So rich that references are sometimes imperceptible (Hitchcock's "Vertigo"). A film that invites to dive in and drown.
I'm not sure I enjoyed what I just watched, but I'm going to give it time to process before I make a rash decision on my score. What a crazy ride of a movie this was. Even as someone who has seen Jumbo, a very similar film in subject matter, this one still took me off guard with how sporadic its story and narrative structure was. It also had me squirming multiple times with its absurdly squeamish body-horror segments. Very weird, very French, with a lot of symbolism and "under-the-surface" meaning that I will now spend days unpacking.
Never change Cannes, never change.
Edit: No, I've sat on this for a day now and I'm just not coming round to its strange, albeit wholesome and unique hodge podge of messages and themes. I enjoyed the juxtaposition and coming together of the two main characters, one never having a childhood and the other having their parenthood stolen from them. I enjoyed the themes of gender identity, returning to trauma as a comfort after living under it for so long, and the role of sexuality as a processing mechanism for all this. While these are very well represented and conveyed articulately, bringing them together in this strange horror/drama/art piece package just didn't connect for me. I can appreciate its parts seperately, but all together they just don't sing from the same hymn sheet in my opinion. Much like Midsommar and Possession though, I've had fun parsing and researching all the intricacies of this movie after the fact, so it has that going for it. I await Julia Ducournau's next foray into cinema, she certainly makes fun and unique movies you won't see from any other director.
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Only the French can produce a film about a lesbian serial killer who has wild BDSM monkey sex with a Cadillac, gets pregnant, has a weird dance-off, fucks a truck, and gives birth to a Turbo-Baby... AND it wins the Palme d'Or at Cannes?!?! If this movie were made in the U.S. it would have been produced by either Troma or Full Moon and would earn perpetual eye-rolls from any and all critics. What a weird world.