“Twists horror and erotica into something completely new” – Rolling Stone

A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d’Or winner, TITANE is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of Julia Ducournau (RAW). When seven-year-old Alexia smashes her head in a car accident, she has a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull, setting the stage for a lifelong sexual fetish. We meet her again a few decades later, and the intervening years have not been kind; her main pastimes include random murder and having sex with cars. On the run as her body count rises, she leaves her life behind and takes on the guise of a missing teenage boy, beginning a deceitful relationship with a grieving father (Vincent Lindon). But, like a lucky penny turning up in a puddle of blood, something miraculous emerges between the two. Newcomer Agathe Rousselle plays Alexia’s psychopathy with a precise yet impossible-to-anticipate wildness, fully embodying her various physical transformations.

This film is presented as part of Arkadin’s FEMALE FILMMAKERS ON THE EDGE, exploring works by female directors that boldly challenge conventions and expand the scope of what cinema can be.

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