Tag: juliaducournau
FIN Atlantic 2021 Review: TITANE, Extreme Body Pleasure and Pain
Carrie Fisher once described her body as a bag to carry her brain around. There's a book about women's health entitled 'Our Bodies, Ourselves'. We often talk about of our bodies as being separate from us, and yet they are...
SLASH Filmfestival Announces Full Lineup of 12th Edition
The SLASH Filmfestival, Austria's biggest and most popular destination for fantastic cinema, has announced the full lineup of its 12th edition, which is bookended by Julia Ducournau’s Titane on opening night and Valdimar Jóhannsson’s Lamb on closing night. For eleven days...
Friday One Sheet: TITANE
An almost 'street art' design for Julia Ducournau's sophomore feature, Titane, debuting at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, features a mixture of haute couture and body horror, in high contrast 'club lighting' colours. Using nearly all the poster real estate...
TITANE Trailer: Julia Ducournau Returns, More Striking Than Ever
Julia Ducournau smashed out of the gate with Raw, her feature debut as writer and director, and her new film looks even more impressive. Take a look below. It's in the Official Competition at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival, and...
Now on Blu-ray: RAW, More Full-Blooded Than Ever on Limited Release from Second Sight Films
Fans ravenous for Julia Ducournau’s next film have something to tide them over thanks to a new limited edition of her jaw-dropping debut, Raw. The story of a veterinary school freshman, Justine, who gets forced into eating meat for the...
Review: RAW, Coming of Age With Visceral Power
It's hard to maintain one's identity when university begins; or perhaps more to the point, find your identity under enormous pressure to do well in school, adapt to life without constant parental supervision, not to mentions the pressures of the...
Interview: Introducing Garance Marillier, Breakout Star of RAW, to International Audiences
Let’s not mince words: ScreenAnarchy digs Raw. We have been covering Julia Ducournau’s powerful debut about a young veterinary student’s unusual coming of age ever since its Cannes 2016 world premiere (Shelagh Rowan-Legg’s review). Matt Brown offered an in-depth look...
RAW Interview: Julia Ducournau on the Thematic Charge and Cinematic Language of Her Cannibalistic Shocker
2017 is off to one hell of a start for fans of horror. Hot on the heels of box office breakout Get Out American audiences are soon being treated to another high caliber genre effort that does not shy away...
RAW Clip Welcomes Aspiring Vets With Bloody Hazing Ritual
By now you might have heard a thing or two about Raw, a film that lapped up awards left and right on the international film festival circuit and even left some early audiences in a queasy state of shock. Julia...
Review: NEITHER HEAVEN NOR EARTH, An Unusual, Effective Metaphysical Thriller Set In Afghanistan
Neither Heaven Nor Earth is an effective, minimalistic metaphysical thriller set in a battlefield of Afghanistan from a French visual artist/filmmaker, Clément Cogitore, in his feature film debut. It tells about French soldiers stationed in the Wakhan valley, an arid,...
Cannes 2016 Review: RAW, A Terrifying and Gripping Evisceration
It's hard to maintain one's identity when university begins; or perhaps more to the point, find your identity under enormous pressure to do well in school, adapt to life without constant parental supervision, not to mentions the pressures of the...