![]() ![]() I’m just trying to explore all the moments where all these extremes intertwine. For me, the same way there is this whole echo between darkness and light in the film, between an animalistic aspect and the very sacred aspect. How important was it for you to make this film feel both soft and metallic? 'Titane' is a triumph in the body horror genre that surprises with extreme sensitivity. I spoke to the 38-year-old French filmmaker before her Cannes-conquering masterpiece came to our screens. Their lives crash more noisily and messily than cars could. ![]() The film stars Agathe Rousselle as Alexia, a mute exotic dancer with a titanium plate in her head, and Vincent Lindon as a fireman searching for his missing son. Titane is unlike any film I have seen, but also, ultimately, a lovesong you can dance to.Īlso read: Cannes 2021: Julia Ducournau's 'Titane' wins Palme d’Or Yet the truest subversion may be the aching tenderness within this body horror film. Her film Titane is radical and revolutionary: a film where a woman has sex with a car and gets pregnant. Popular captions included "Z, X, Millennial, Boomer" and “Pitch, first draft, final proof, comments section”.In 2021, the 75th year of the Cannes Film Festival, Julia Ducournau became the first female director to win a solo Palme d’Or, the top prize. The latter trio of actors posed with the director in the festival’s most meme-able photo, which Twitter users rushed to label. Seydoux had been due to appear alongside a busload of top stars from Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch" featuring Timothée Chalamet, Tilda Swinton, Bill Murray and many more A-listers. French actress Léa Seydoux was the only prominent Covid casualty, missing out on four red-carpet premieres after contracting the virus in Paris. Pictures of unmasked viewers at early premieres also drew criticism on social media, though restrictions were quickly tightened. Some were grossed out by all the spitting, but the system was efficient and quick. There were some complaints early on in the festival about the Covid-19 logistics, which required non-EU attendees (as well as non-vaccinated EU nationals) to take saliva tests every 48 hours. Still, the fact that the event was able to take place without major hiccups marked a triumph for Cannes. ![]() Pandemic restrictions certainly put a dampener on the parties and resulted in smaller crowds attending, while the unusual July slot meant film buffs were, for once, outnumbered by holidaymakers. The world’s biggest and glitziest film gathering was the first major movie festival to take place in (almost) its usual form since the advent of Covid-19. The Croatian coming-of-age drama “Murina” by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović took the Camera d’Or award for best first feature. Norway’s Renate Reinsve took the best actress prize for her stunning turn in Joachim Trier’s much-loved romance "The Worst Person in the World" while Caleb Landry Jones won best actor for his part in Justin Kurzel’s “Nitram”, about the Port Arthur mass shooting that shook Australia in 1996. The award was accepted by the musical duo Sparks, who wrote the script and music for the film. Best screenplay went to Ryusuke Hamaguchi's “Drive My Car”, a Haruki Murakami adaptation he penned with Takamasa Oe. The third-placed jury prize was also split, between Nadav Lapid’s “Ahed’s Knee”, about censorship in modern Israel, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's meditative “Memoria".īest director was awarded to Leos Carax for “Annette”, the fantastical musical that opened the festival. The Grand Prix award was a joint honour split between the Iranian drama “A Hero” and Finnish director Juho Kuosmanen’s “Apartment No. The festival’s other awards were spread out across a slate of films that included many leading international filmmakers. US director Spike Lee was the first Black person to head a Cannes Jury. ![]()
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