The Films of Julia Ducournau: Titane

The second film in my analysis of The Films of Julia Ducournau is the genre-bending body horror thriller, Titane . Ducournau’s sophomore feature seems to crystalize and extend both the themes and the visuals she is interested in as a storyteller into a specified shape. The gendering of women and the patriarchal attempt to tame them, aging masculinity and the sense of identity loss that accompanies…