Titane: Palme d’Or Winner (Cannes Film Fest 2021)

February 3, 2022 by

Titane: Palme d’Or Winner (Cannes Fest 2021)

Julia Ducournau becomes only the second female director to claim Cannes’ top prize.

TITANE
Titane: CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 
“I really tried to make a film that shoots an arrow, which is above all an experience that comes out of as a physical test,” explains director Julia Ducournau about her award winning film, Titane.
Narrative Premise:
After a series of unexplained crimes, a father finds his son, who has been missing for 10 years.Titanium: Metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, resulting in very hard alloys.

Titane Bande-annonce VF
Titane : l'interview avec Julia Ducournau et Agathe Rousselle

Cast:

Vincent Lindon
Vincent Lindon as Vincent
Agathe Rousselle
Agathe Rouselle as Alexia
Garance Marillier
Garance Marillier as Justine
Laïs Salameh
Lay Salameh as Rayane
Thus, Grave was only an hors d’oeuvre for Julia Ducournau, before moving on to a solid dish of resistance cooked in the muffled. Don’t worry about the director’s talent for creating glaucous atmospheres by dynamiting genres including the canons of femininity and virility, which take her camera in the face. In Titan’s Titanium, feminine, the bodies suffer, tortured to the extreme and there would be …Follow your activity

After “Grave”, Julia Ducournau returns in force with “Titanium”, a film that is much talked about at the moment, and for good reason: it is true that it is violent, disturbing, even nauseous at times, but also very fascinating and hypnotizing. Difficult to talk about it without revealing too much, I would simply say that we will follow a young woman with a tortured mind (having titanium in her following a small car accident), .
After “Annette”, opening on July 6th, after “Benedetta” on the 9th, “Titane” caused a scandal on the 14th on the Croisette and sparked debates far beyond. It has aroused all the more since it received the palme d’or the day before last night. A historic Palme d’Or since it is only the second since 1945 awarded to a director. And a Palme d’Or awarded to a genre film, since it is now the expression consecrated for ..
Titane : Photo Vincent LindonTitane : Photo Agathe RousselleTitane : Photo Garance MarillierTitane : Photo Vincent LindonTitane : Photo Vincent LindonTitane : Photo Garance MarillierTitane : Affiche
After the very good reception that her first feature film, Grave, received, Julia Ducournau quickly wrote a first draft of Titanium of one hundred and ninety pages. However, she encountered difficulties in completing the script and experienced a one-year deadlock. She was aware of being eagerly awaited but, more than that, she was afraid of disappointing herself: “I went through the mourning of an energy, that of the first feature film…

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