the director Julia Ducournau, lady of “Titane”

As far back as she can remember, Julia Ducournau has always worn rings. Most often, one on each finger. “It’s like armor, she describes. When I’m performing, they give me a semblance of composure and make me forget my clay feet. The weight of the metal reassures me. “

In a few days, the 37-year-old director, passionate about horror films, will complete her outfit with “Fat” headlines to present his second feature film, in the official competition of the Cannes Film Festival. In this highly anticipated film, about which the small world of cinema is spreading rumors and predictions, seeing a potential scandal coming as it likes them, it will be a question of a lighter metal but also more resistant to corrosion than the silver from its cuffs: titanium.

From this movie, Titanium, therefore, we will not reveal much a few days before the festivities and a theatrical release on July 14, except that he continues by radicalizing the intimate and instinctual exploration of the metamorphoses of the female body of his first feature film. Initiatory and cannibalistic story of a student in a veterinary school, Serious had accelerated, five years ago, the blood circulation of the spectators of the Critics’ Week, forcing some of them to close their eyes to the violence of certain scenes.

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This time, Titanium slipped into a skull… Alexia, a dancer in her thirties, has a scar sewn in a spiral above her right ear which hides a prosthesis within her. This metal plate literally turns his body into a war machine. “I wanted to start the film in scorched earth, where only violence and death reign, to make humanity germinate from what appears to be cold and sterile matter”, traces the director.

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To look for, we can think of the reminiscence of a “Traumatic experience” that Julia Ducournau, deaf in her right ear, lived, at the age of 5, when an otolaryngologist thrust a very fine metal pick into her eardrum. “This operation is called paracentesis, explains this daughter of a dermatologist and a gynecologist. It’s a painful process without anesthesia… very old school. And that didn’t solve my problem ”, she said shrugging her shoulders.

“The Titans and the Titanides forge abject relationships with each other, with incest and cannibalism all the way… Ouranos eats everyone! It’s very gory, like everything I love in mythology. Julia Ducournau

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