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‘Titane’ Review: Murder, She Did


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A prodigiously predatory young woman comes up against the kindness of others in Julia Ducournau’s sumptuous second feature

 

‘Titane,” the title of Julia Ducournau’s second French-language feature, means titanium. Does that mean the film, which won a Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is a documentary about knee replacement, or a celebration of one of Frank Gehry’s favorite building materials? No, it’s a story about a girl, and then a young woman, with a titanium plate in her head—an astonishing and horrific thriller that has been constructed, like few films I’ve ever seen, to make you turn away from its frequent eruptions of savagery but then look back, just as often, to savor its mysterious beauty.

When I reviewed “Raw,” the 2016 debut feature that Ms. Ducournau devoted to cannibalism, I called it “shockingly well made” and said the filmmaker was “clearly destined for mainstream success if that’s where her appetites take her.” Not a terrible guess, based on technical and artistic achievement, but hardly a prescient one either. Those appetites turn out to have taken her into a bloodstream of violence, a spiritual realm of Stygian darkness.

The heroine of “Titane,” Alexia ( Agathe Rousselle ), is by any civilized measure a monster—that gleaming stiletto she keeps in her topknot isn’t a fashion statement. And the filmmaker doesn’t care why Alexia kills—whether it’s a matter of nature, nurture or neither—although her rage clearly contains a sexual component. (In one scene of auto-eroticism, Alexia pleasures herself on the roof of a sedan at a car show.) What’s equally clear is that her compulsion to visit pain on others is equaled by her need to inflict it on herself.

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Agathe Rousselle in ‘Titane’

Photo: NEON/Carole Bethuel

So far you may not have detected a compelling reason to seek out “Titane.” But there’s another dimension to the film, which was photographed sumptuously by Ruben Impens, and which could be described as the spawn of Erick Zonca’s 1998 “The Dreamlife of Angels,” an exquisite French-language drama about the power of kindness, and “Rosemary’s Baby.”

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Vincent Lindon

Photo: NEON/Carole Bethuel

Kindness is Alexia’s kryptonite, the only thing that can stop her in her diabolical tracks. Its source is, improbably, a veteran firefigher, Vincent ( Vincent Lindon ), who is tortured, in his turn, but a man who saves lives instead of ending them. I won’t tell you how they meet, or why they remain connected; if I did you wouldn’t believe that a crazy match like theirs could sustain a credible narrative. But it does, posing questions in the process that aren’t crazy at all. Can delusions nourish the soul? Where does Vincent’s delusional thinking start and end? Can good come of evil, or was Alexia always more nearly human than we thought? For further questions, rather than answers, see “Titane.” If you can watch it.

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