I really like it." Ducournau’s Palme d’Or win is one of several major triumphs by women filmmakers at festivals and awards ceremonies this year. "It's like the feminine desire would overcome the car, (which is) an extension of a form of toxic masculinity. "As far as the sex act was concerned, I knew that I was not going to show it extensively, obviously, and that it was just going to be like flashes to show that her desire overcomes the ridiculous cliche that goes with this kind of car," she said. On the sex scene with the car, Ducournau said she was pleased it had become a talking point and elicited a reaction from audiences. The plate attracts her to metallic elements and following the act with the car, Alexia becomes pregnant.įollowing a series of violent outbursts, the adult Alexia, played by newcomer Agathe Rousselle, meets a firefighter (Vincent Lindon), who has never recovered from the disappearance of his young son.Ĭonvinced that Alexia is his adult child, he takes her in. The title refers to a titanium plate placed in heroine Alexia's head following a car accident in childhood. "When you make films like my films, you always have this fear that you're going to be misunderstood or mistranscribed.I was very happily surprised with how open-minded and ready to live the experience all the audiences that I met were," Ducournau said. "Titane", Ducournau's second feature film, is a body horror that has shocked and wowed audiences with its violence, a sex act scene between the main character and a vintage Cadillac car, and themes of gender-bending, grief and love. "For many years it's been looked down on as not being serious enough or valuable enough and it feels like now there is a rising awareness that genre films very much talk about humanity and individuality as well in a deep manner." We're not a country that values genre films very much," Ducournau, 38, told Reuters in an interview. Meanwhile, Butler’s latest role as the face of MYSLF precedes his highly-anticipated turn in “Dune: Part Two” plus Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” and Apple TV+ series “Masters of the Air.The film, which won the Palme d’Or at this year's Cannes Film Festival, was chosen over box office hits and other critically acclaimed movies to represent France. The “Raw” director has an upcoming A24 TV series in the works, plus is in development on a new film to mark her feature follow-up to “Titane.” ![]() I make movies because I’m me, not because I’m a woman. ![]() When people say I’m a woman director - I mean, that’s always a bit annoying, because I’m a person. ![]() I’m saying this for everybody: For me, as a woman, I don’t want my gender to define me at all. “However, because that’s not yet something that’s socially understood, it becomes a topic. I don’t think our gender defines us,” she said. ![]() “I think that gender is not really relevant for someone’s identity. Ducournau previously told IndieWire that she doesn’t like putting gender into a “box” when directing. The MYSLF product is billed as a “ new representation of masculinity, not just a fragrance but an invitation to be your true self.”ĭucournau directed the ad, with cinematographer Benoît Debie serving as the director of photography. ‘The Kitchen’ Review: An Elegant and Timely Tale of Community in a Besieged London Tower Block
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