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Titane (2021)

titane movie posterFrench filmmaker Julia Ducournau’s (Raw) wildly uneven yet highly ambitious Titane is a frenzied, are you able to suspend your belief, adrenalin-pumping film that is not for the faint of heart or those who don’t deal well with queasiness in their filmgoing experiences. With Rotten Tomatoes Scores of 89% (critics) and 85% (audiences), I find it ironic that I couldn’t identify ten people to whom I might recommend this film. Yet for the film purists who crave the originality that mainstream movies too often fail to deliver, you’ll find a bizarre take on humanity richly laced with stylistic metaphors in what originates as a slasher-flick before transitioning into something incredibly more intimate in its progression.

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