” Titane ” is a shock to the system. Unbound by genre, decency or form, French writer-director Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or recipient is pulsating and passionately defiant cinema that nearly defies ...

As the picture opens, we see a young girl named Alexia (Adele Guigue) who is in a car when she unfastens her seat belt. Her father (Bertrand Bonello) tries to help her put it back on but an accident ...

" Titane ” is a shock to the system. Unbound by genre, decency or form, French writer-director Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or recipient is pulsating and passionately defiant cinema that nearly defies ...

No other film this year could be accurately described using the words “sticky” and “slippery” – at least, not in the way that they apply to Titane. Not only do its frames ooze with blood, oil, and ...

Sex with cars is just the beginning of the eye-popping shocks in "Titane," an unrelenting but somewhat adrift body-horror experiment that nonetheless leaves a mark. But the meaning of those marks ...

As if to assure us that reaching international art cinema’s most hallowed grounds hasn’t turned her soft, Julia Ducournau opens her sophomore feature “Titane” with the following: a car crash, an ...

The same goes for the fire chief Vincent (Vincent Lindon), self-anointed God to his men, who thinks Alexia is his long-lost son but isn’t overly fazed when he sees her breasts and baby bump. As Joe E ...

‘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 ...