What do you do if you’ve just won the top Palme d’Or prize and major critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival? If you’re the studio Neon, you give the film in question, the body horror “Titane,” a plum fall Oscar-worthy release date in the U.S., and you also hew it towards Halloween, given its darker and f*cked up tendencies. Neon has just announced that “Titane,” directed by acclaimed French filmmaker Julia Ducournau (“Raw“), has been given an October 1 release date in the U.S.
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The film stars Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh and the official synopsis is very vague: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys, often used in medical prostheses due to its pronounced biocompatibility.
That said, our reviewers saw the film in Cannes, and while it’s bizarre, transgressive, weird and hard to explain, the film is essentially about a missing boy who returns to his father ten years after his disappearance. Simultaneously, series of gruesome murders places the region under pressure, and a model in a car showroom is also involved. See? You just gotta see it or yourself to understand what’s it’s truly all about.
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Our review from Cannes by Jessica Kiang says “Titane” is “roughly seven horror movies plus one bizarrely tender parent-child romance soldered into one machine and painted all over with flames: it’s so replete with startling ideas, suggestive ellipses, transgressive reversals and preposterous propositions that it ought to be a godforsaken mess… Titane” is gorgeous to look at, to listen to, to obsess over, and fetishize.”
Sold, right? Well, “Titane” is coming to U.S. shores on October 1, and if you’re lucky enough to attend a festival like Telluride or TIFF, it’s a strong bet you could see it at either one in September. Here’s the first teaser trailer below.