Losing his temper, he turns to yell at her, and they’re in a terrible collision. As a child of seven, she’s riding in the back of her father’s car, kicking his seat with a scowling fury as he drives. Her motivation is mysterious throughout the film, even though, in Titane’s opening segment, we get her origin story. It comes as no surprise when a news broadcast reveals that she’s responsible for a spate of murders.Īdèle Guigue as Alexia at seven years old in Titane. After work, in a desolate parking lot, she draws an obsessed fan close, rolling down her car window to make out with him from her position in the driver’s seat, then letting her hair down to stab him through the ear, using a well-practiced move with her weapon of choice-the spike-like pin that fastens her messy bun. Lissome and surly in gold spandex and neon fishnets, she deploys a raunchy hostility in place of flirtation. And while the film is visually transfixing in moments and sometimes in stretches, its most intriguingly outlandish storyline-namely the conception and gestation of a car fetus-turns out to be oddly gratuitous.Īn auto show is the lurid, carnivalesque setting for an early scene that introduces the protagonist Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) dancing on and around a flame-emblazoned Cadillac. The French director Julia Ducournau, who won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this past July for Titane (only the second time in the festival’s seventy-five-year history that the top prize has gone to a woman), presents a sequence of violent events, a few motifs, and a shaky character arc or two. ![]() ![]() It’s a tantalizing premise to say the least, which, by virtue of its bold absurdity and engagement with deep kink, somehow drags the film across its grisly finish line, unassisted by a clear purpose or coherent plot. On the lam, she pretends to be a long-missing little boy returning home as a young man and takes refuge with the child’s desperately credulous father. In Titane, a serial killer finds herself pregnant after fucking a car. ![]() Titane, directed by Julia Ducournau, now in theaters
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