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Seventh Row Editors / December 1, 2021

Bonus Episode 18: Titane

We loved Julia Ducournau’s Raw. On this episode, find out what we think about her follow-up, the Palme d’Or winning Titane.

Agathe Rousselle in Titane
Agathe Rousselle in Titane

This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney, Executive Editor Orla Smith, and Editor-at-Large Mary Angela Rowe. It is a sequel to Episode 112: The modern female monsters of Raw and Thelma.

Content warning: This episode discusses body mutilation.

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Titane

Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) has a lot of things going on. In addition to being a dancer, she’s a serial killer and a car-lover in the very literal sense. Wanted for murder and pregnant with a car baby, Alexia hides out pretending to be Adrien, a boy who went missing a decade earlier. Adrien’s father (Vincent Lindon) accepts Adrien as his son returned

Titane is available on VOD in Canada and the USA. It will be out in January in the UK.

On This Episode

  • Related episodes (1:45)
  • Why are we talking about Titane (4:26)
  • Ducournau’s approach to violence (11:19)
  • Did we like this film? (13:40)
  • Alexia as a character (27:22)
  • How the film uses body horror (38:08)
  • Mary Angela argues this is not a horror film (42:48)
  • Dance scenes and gender (56:33)
  • The one normal person in the film (1:06:16)

Show Notes

  • Read Mary Angela’s 2017 review of Raw
  • Read a preview of Orla’s essay on sisterhood in Raw from Beyond Empowertainment.

Related Episodes

  • Ep. 103: Pascal Plante’s films: Fake Tattoos and Nadia Butterfly
  • Ep. 101: Magnus von Horn’s films: The Here After and Sweat
  • Ep. 80: Motherhood in horror: The Babadook and Prevenge (Members Only)
  • Ep. 69: Paddington and Paddington 2 (Members Only)
  • Ep. 66: Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country and Ammonite (Members Only)
  • Ep. 21: Feminist horror

Filed Under: LGBTQ+, Podcasts Tagged With: Alex Heeney podcast, horror podcast, Mary Angela Rowe podcast, Orla Smith podcast, Oscar Hopefuls podcast, podcast, Women Directors. LGBTQ

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