You debunk, direct, and then kill these stereotypes. This was intentional because to debunk stereotypes you must show them first and then you can decide what to do with them. Alexia is an erotic dancer at a car show and Vincent’s character played by Vincent Lindon is a fireman.
JULIA DUCOURNAU PROFESSIONAL
Their professional choices were important. It is always about the characters and thinking about their journey. She is not aware, but she discovers along the way that gender is something she must get rid of as it is a social construct that prevents my characters from truly loving each other.
It also triggers the question about gender and what it means, especially when she knows that she wants to reach this simple setup of two people being able to express unconditional love for each other. She thinks that’s her only escape in that present moment.
The fact that Alexia takes on a teenager’s fake identity is something that made sense in the character’s journey as she ran away from the cops. In the end, it probably derives from things that I think about a lot, but it is not done in a way that is planned. It all evolves naturally with the characters and through the time that I spend with them. I am not someone who crosses out boxes thinking ‘yeah, now I got this theme and this other theme as well’. How did you develop the story and the characters to explore these crucial parts of human life in less than 2 hours? Mortality, birth, instincts, violence, love, pain, and more.
JULIA DUCOURNAU HOW TO
We don’t.įRONTRUNNER sat down with director Julia Ducournau to open up about the… and once again the human body, to critique Western societies’ perception of everything taboo and how to use cars as a metaphor to debunk stereotypes along with the bursting patriarchy, which shouldn’t be there in the first place.Ĭongratulations on Titane and for successfully amalgamating so many important facets of human life in your film.
JULIA DUCOURNAU SERIAL
She fucks a car, is on a serial killer spree with a hairpin, has a thing for nipple piercings, and makes us anxiously wonder: do we even have a clue about what goes on in our bodies? The answer is no. Ducournau takes us on quite the journey with one of Titane’s main characters, Alexia played by newcomer Agathe Rousselle. The film, as with all of her work, is endlessly recognized for her so-called “monsters” to lead the story, and for challenging the audience to understand what lies under our skin: acceptance, fluidity, pain, love, gender, and more. This year, she won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, only the second woman to do so after Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993. Titane, French director Julia Ducournau’s second feature film following the highly-acclaimed Raw (2016), is an experience that keeps on giving. One might call her the stereotype killer filmmaker in the industry, but that would be inaccurate as she is doing much more than that.
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