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I bought this movie on a hype article. It's horrible. I really wish I didn't buy this movie. Worst movie ever.

This item came damaged so I returned it for a refund.

Director Julia Ducournau’s French arthouse body horror drama film Titane (2021) is like huffing car exhaust while on acid. Ducournau is officially France’s most original and creative director ever for me after seeing Raw and Titane. I prefer Raw as it remains one of my favorite films ever, but Titane is a breath of fresh air for art films. Ducournau’s direction can say a hundred things without words with a striking visual language all her own. She has complete mastery over her subtle filmmaking and expressive camera work. Ducournau’s direction is focused, beautiful, feminine, cool, artful, and harrowing. Titane takes the car love of John Carpenter’s Christine and David Cronenberg’s body horror and outlandish kinkyness from Crash. Julia Ducournau is a director in a class of her own. Writer Julia Ducournau is poignant with her deeper themes and mature emotional clarity. Her writing is fascinating to think about as Titane goes places your mind will be astonished by for certain. Titane is as much about the fear women have of male stalkers and assaulters as it is about sincere grief and loss. I believe Titane is really a metaphor for genuine love that cares about you no matter who you are to someone. As for the car love and chrome baby, I have no words to describe Titane. I’m not even sure what the homoerotic firefighter rave is supposed to mean, but it is thought provoking. It’s a shocking, exciting, reviling, funny, moving, and horrifying piece of art. Agathe Rousselle bravely bares it all in Titane as an alluring car model named Alexia, who has wild sex with a car and becomes pregnant with a human-automobile hybrid, besides the fast that she’s also a serial killer on the run. Rousselle is exhilarating as an exotic dancer and vicious mass murderer, while moving as a girl trying to find kindness from her father figure. Rousselle convinces you of her pain and leans into Ducournau’s sexual identity and gender bending throughout Titane as yet another theme emerges. Garance Marillier has a lovely supporting role as the friendly car model and exotic dancer Justine. It’s hard to watch her in pain as she’s so adorable and gripping. Vincent Lindon is honestly quite touching as middle-aged firefighter captain Vincent Legrand, who is trying to cope with his aging body with steroids and the loss of his beloved son through taking care of Alexia. He is both funny and devastatingly sad. Ducournau makes several points about moving on and grief, while Vincent cannot let himself just decay as he is compelled to use steroids. He’s a commentary on masculinity by appearances and sincerity in his kind actions. Laïs Salameh is great as the suspicious Rayane in a realistic performance like Lindon. Bertrand Bonello is interesting as Alexia’s weary father. Editor Jean-Christophe Bouzy makes Titane’s 108 minutes passy by with sharp cutting that never lets up. Cinematographer Ruben Impens uses all these modern lights and colorful scenes for focus on Ducournau’s peculiar character and all their intimacies. The startling wide shots are gorgeous and I’m still shaken by the stunning close-ups. The colorful purple and red lights are as iconic as Julia Ducournau’s raves from Raw. Laurie Colson and Lise Péault’s production design creates lavish homes that have a cozy intimacy. Aurore Benoit’s art direction is frightening from the creepy car gears to the endless naked characters. Set decorators Axelle Le Dauphin, Emmanuelle Olle, and Bruno Taddei do a fantastic job of ensuring each home looks lived in, while coming up with all new ways to shoot sequences. Visual effects artists Thibault Martegani and Martial Vallanchon use disgustingly real CGI alongside neat practical make-up from Flore Mason to invent Titane’s unique horror looks and gags. Composer Jim Williams combines this seedy industrial electronic sound with a grisly classical take for Titane’s unique score. Sound designers Stéphane Thiébaut and Séverin Favriau amplify car engines revving and people moaning in ecstasy for a chilling effect. Costume designer Anne-Sophie Gledhill created all these sexy, chic, and contemporary outfits, especially for Agathe Rousselle and Garance Marillier. In all, Titane must be seen to be believed as there is simply no more creative film from 2021.

A beautiful, thought provoking piece of art that aggressively deconstructs masculinity in an incredibly engaging manner. Have an open mind when watching this !