I couldn't stomach it, but this just proves how good the direction was. I can't really tell why, but the violence in this film disturbed me more than any other film I've ever seen even though "on paper" it was nothing special, but I'd say there's a rawness to it, no frills, that just made it so real, so close to me that I rally couldn't keep on watching.
@bencarlson43002 жыл бұрын
It was hard to watch, but oddly easier to watch than Raw simply because it felt more outside the boundaries of reality than Raw
@NickHunter2 жыл бұрын
I found the scenes with her putting the leg of a stool through someone's face easier to watch than her breaking her own nose on the sink lol
@brocoolhurst2 жыл бұрын
Fantastic film. Is there anything more satisfying than loving something, coming to KZbin and hearing Kermode echo your thoughts?
@alexanderulv38862 жыл бұрын
Yes, to me when Chris Stuckmann mirrors my thoughts lol. Very unexpected movie, can’t stop thinking about it!
@MaximTendu2 жыл бұрын
sex with a dune buggy comes to mind
@kz.irudimen Жыл бұрын
@@alexanderulv3886 yikes
@huzistiglitz51222 жыл бұрын
My fav film of the year. It made me feel a whole range of emotions. Squirmish, made me look away, made me teared up, made me just loving it.
@Onmysheet2 жыл бұрын
I've been pronouncing this film as Tie-Tain.
@MaximTendu2 жыл бұрын
oh là là.
@alex-oy9eo2 жыл бұрын
it's tea tan
@connorveach59862 жыл бұрын
Close enough
@RYNO25112 жыл бұрын
Been waiting to hear Kermode's thoughts on this for a while now, what a film. Can't remember the last time I felt so challenged and so rewarded by a film.
@downsjmmyjones101 Жыл бұрын
TRUE! I was piecing things together the whole time. "Oh, it's about trauma. Oh it's about gender. Oh it's about family. Oh it's about love."
@darnbricks2 жыл бұрын
Titane was the first movie I went to see in a movie theatre after the first lockdown, so it had been twenty months or something - and it was quite the experience indeed. There was only one other person in the entire cinema room, a pretty girl sitting two rows in front of me, and afterwards we couldn't find our way out of the shopping center that surrounded the theatre, which had closed off all of the exits in the meantime. We had to go back and ask the attendant for directions; apparently, you had to push a buzzer in a narrow corridor to leave the building. The name of the place? Cinéma Aventure. Seems appropriate.
@RodrigoMenezesss2 жыл бұрын
Easily the best film of the year
@tonyzuco6144 Жыл бұрын
😱 It's one of the worst movies ever made.
@MaaDFoXX2 жыл бұрын
Loving someone for 'who you want them to be' isn't unconditional, that's very much conditional.
@johncharlton1992 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@natural2 жыл бұрын
The scene where she kills her gf and then realizes there are a lot of other ppl in the house reminded me of Mulholland Drive scene of the hired killer
@charliepanayiotou43052 жыл бұрын
Absolutely baffling time of year for this to come out, really should have come out earlier this autumn. Glad it's finally here though.
@Spaceman29212 жыл бұрын
It came out months ago everywhere else on Earth. We're just getting it late for some reason. That's fine. It's a pretty christmasy movie if you think about it.
@natesmart99592 жыл бұрын
@@Spaceman2921 exactly I saw this months ago at an AMC in Tennessee
@Spaceman29212 жыл бұрын
@@natesmart9959 I saw it months ago when I pirated it. If it's arbitrarily decided that I'm not allowed to see it because I'm in the wrong country then I feel pretty justified.
@thunder_heads2 жыл бұрын
It is the best transmasculine film I have ever seen. The shaving scene and the scene where Vincent tells Alexsia "I'll accept you no matter what" as a trans man made me cry because I never got that and a lot of other men in my situation never got that from a dad
@michaeldwatkins_2 жыл бұрын
I saw this as part of this year's LFF, and have been waiting for Kermode's thoughts ever since. The quotes on the trailer and the poster do far too much to over-egg the severity of the film - which, I guess, is kind of what trailers do. I was sitting there, watching what is a really original film, of that I can be confident, but feeling pretty disconnected from it, and largely uninterested by it. It was promised as so much, and when the substance (for me, personally) didn't match how brash, provocative, and gnarly it was purported to be, I found myself hoping I'd find something of a deeper meaning to it. And again, unfortunately, I came up short. It's visually striking and, as I said before, original, but for me, I really don't see or get the hype with this one.
@joshhutchinson25132 жыл бұрын
“Titane is to Raw what Trainspotting is to Shallow Grave” - interesting that I was unable to finish Raw and Trainspotting, but absolutely loved the other two. Blimey.
@gehinkun2 жыл бұрын
Loved this movie, it really felt like it gave me a real understanding of queer/nongenderconforming people and gave me so much to think about in relation to gender performativity.
@CUTSUK2 жыл бұрын
Loved this film. Surprised it got panned by some. Perfect review and nailed it once again.
@dmachman52962 жыл бұрын
Going to see this tonight when I pick up some tickets for a different viewing. Trying not to think too much about preconceptions like ‘art house’ and subtitles in a cinema will be a first for me. But I particularly enjoy a film that leaves it mark on you and messes with your concepts and give you a good hard kick in the comfort zone. A film made like this should by its very nature challenge your beliefs and your views and open your eyes just that little bit wider than is comfortable. It should be like looking directly into the director’s brain and seeing their thoughts squirming around in the darkness. The trick is not to blink or look away. Will do a post post. 👍🏼
@arnemyggen2 жыл бұрын
Mark deserves as much recognition as does the movie - amazing review
@rbdriftin2 жыл бұрын
I love this film so much.
@kickycrowbar2 жыл бұрын
Just finished watching it so looking online for other thoughts, I thought it was a solid 7/10 film well worth a watch I guess I'm a simple guy after reading these comments from aspiring film critics haha
@alexanderulv38862 жыл бұрын
If you like this one, I suggest you watch Raw by the same director. It has the same wow effect as this one for sure. Also 8mm is a great watch, reminded me a bit of this one, but with Nicholas Cage.
@andrewklang8092 жыл бұрын
A very fun film, and I'm not into body horror or even horror in general. But... SPOILER for the movie I still don't understand why she killed those people in the house. The guy that chased her to her car, I get. But the other woman, and the 2-3 others there, I was waiting for an explanation. Didn't get one. She just kills them, impulsively, because. Of course, she gets impregnated by a car and carries a titanium cyborg baby to term, so I'm not hung up on realism. Still, it's a huge thing that happens that leads to the second part of the movie, and it never seems motivated.
@GA-1st2 жыл бұрын
I found "Raw" very intriguing. This sounds somewhat reminiscent of Zulawski's "Possession" (1981). I'll have to catch it on video or streaming.
@postmodernrecycler2 жыл бұрын
For as much as Mr. Kermode invokes 'The Devils', he always does so in glory. Here is no exception. It has been a few years since I felt this viscerally about a film--not even 'Raw'.
@navigatingmadness1802 жыл бұрын
Unbelievable film. A real shame it didn't get an academy nomination. Julia Ducournau is fast becoming one of the most exciting and unique filmmakers working
@kashoot47822 жыл бұрын
The nominations haven’t happened yet have they? I know it failed to get shortlisted for best international feature, but it could definitely get nominated for director
@xyrildanmanuel7832 жыл бұрын
at the first half, when i was being shown what the lead character is capable of, i was thinking "oh this is probably going to be like no country for old men where they established from the start this psychopathic serial killer and how dangerous they are". i kinda got the same vibes that it'll be an unpredictable killing spree movie. turns out i was half right. it wasn't a killing spree movie, but it was in the end, unpredictable. i thought i was looking ahead of myself and predicting this movie's direction but nope
@olieoliver60882 жыл бұрын
I loved it ,not seen a film which has stayed with me for ages ..highly recommend
@oxman55712 жыл бұрын
It's on my Top Five for the year.
@andreacinefilo2 жыл бұрын
So disappointing that this one wasn't included in the Oscars shortlist for Best international film. Jane Campion is currently the frontrunner for best director, but I was rooting for Julia Ducournau. This movie was bold, original, thematically ambitious, unpredictable and so moving it made me cry at the end.
@griseldadominguez87342 жыл бұрын
Me too!! At the beginning I thought it was one kind of movie, but as it went on... I loved it, sorry, English is not my language and I can't explain how much I liked this story
@wb89052 жыл бұрын
Campion isn’t a bad choice though. I’d take her over the other predicted nominees.
@charliepanayiotou43052 жыл бұрын
No chance the Academy was ever going to be into this, France should have submitted Petite Maman or Happening instead
@andreacinefilo2 жыл бұрын
@@charliepanayiotou4305 They included Lamb, which I still haven't seen but, from what I know, it's also a bit out there.
@marcietownsend36352 жыл бұрын
"Titane" is one of the most intriguing and thought provoking films I have ever seen. I continue to think about it and tease out meanings.
@jerrycornelius34662 жыл бұрын
Post-feminist LGBQT plus psycho film-noir and a Lynchian meditation on sexuality and love Stunning, confounding and amazing. You will be stunned or apalled- there is no middle ground
@mistershabba2 жыл бұрын
I was stunned and appalled - The scene in the house when the italian pop song started playing was off the CHAIN
@reportmelolz2 жыл бұрын
Anyone notice how there’s never any ads on this channel? Only one I’m subbed to that’s like this. Nice.
@jeffterranova2 жыл бұрын
Warning: SPOILERS Great review with almost no spoilers. I thoroughly enjoyed the film. I guess I slept on Raw, but I will definitely check it out. What are everyone's opinion or take on the baby... do you feel that her father impregnated her? I mean, they never interacted and effortlessly not acknowledged one another, even when they were in the same room. It would support how he met his demise... thoughts?
@csn56052 жыл бұрын
I know I'm 8 months late to this but I've only just watched the movie a few days ago. I don't think this is one of those movies where what we see is just a metaphor and not actually what happened, I could be wrong but that's my initial take on it. I believe she was actually impregnated by the car, not her father. I've seen some people suggest that her father sexually abused her as a kid but I never got that impression at all. I believe her trauma comes more from the lack of parental love, and not knowing how to deal with receiving love or attention of any kind. Her father abusing her would twist her trauma into something else entirely. Again I could be wrong, but maybe all of it's true? Maybe none of it is? I like it being left up to our interpretation
@JONESANDDUDDING2 жыл бұрын
Saw a preview of this back in November and stumbled out of the theatre in a state of true shock and awe. It's cinema at it's most explorative and exciting. Amazing.
@Destiny931342 жыл бұрын
The lead actress was so good.she scared the hell out of me.its ashame the rest of the film doesnt match her performance.the first fourty minutes was brutal and intense then after that a bit of a bore.
@SuperHedgehog9102 жыл бұрын
I honestly cannot remember the last time I was utterly floored watching a film. I remember when the credits rolled, I was stunned for about 10 minutes just wrapping my head around this masterpiece. EVERYONE: WATCH TITANE.
@OldBluesChapterandVerse2 жыл бұрын
This is the first review that makes me want to see it.
@UncleErnie712 жыл бұрын
Brilliant review. I can't wait for more Ducournau films.
@themcmexchange29382 жыл бұрын
She is fearless
@SpideySensei722 жыл бұрын
Gives an entirely new meaning to "car sex", I'll say that for it.
@carljcreighton2 жыл бұрын
that felt more spoilery than usual
@SirSmilingPhantom2 жыл бұрын
I think so too but it definitely would hook a more casual movie goer to here that plot detail. Possibly a very smart bit of publicity from Kermode to try and boost the number of people that see it.
@usedfuzzbox2 жыл бұрын
Desperate to see this as Raw was fantastic......
@Gary.North.ElectroBrain586.2 жыл бұрын
Best movie of 2021
@greatpoochini12 жыл бұрын
I thought Raw was excellent. Very enjoyable review and a good 'sell' for the film.
@65g42 жыл бұрын
Is Mark back at home doing reviews now not in studio anymore. God i feel bad for you guys over in the u.k
@andrewkawam26032 жыл бұрын
I thought 'Titane' was absolutely extraordinary, better than 'Raw' in my opinion (though I still thought 'Raw' was interesting). I would describe it as being like a weird fiction LGBTQ/feminist fever dream from the minds of Angela Carter, Candas Jane Dorsey, Suzy McKee Charnas, Izumi Suzuki, Rachel Ingalls, and Hiromi Goto.
@sebastianx132 жыл бұрын
Great description. Totally agree
@sebastianx132 жыл бұрын
…transgressive and subversive interpretations of Ancient Greek mythology
@andymoody83632 жыл бұрын
Just seen Titane and I found it very uncomfortable at times but what a film and what a teriffic review from la Kermode!
@jovan99892 жыл бұрын
i was expecting that the Little car baby in the end, was disappointed.
@diluteduk2 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't have believed that she got adopted by the fireman as his son if I hadn't seen a documentary called The Imposter. And then you realise that's the least weird thing in this movie. I think I enjoyed it, but it made me think about it a lot which is always a sign to me that a film has been made really well.
@bigtony14342 жыл бұрын
Sus impostor???!
@warrenphilbert68562 жыл бұрын
This film will take you by surprise! Cheers! 👍❤️
@AgatheD Жыл бұрын
Love this ! It’s definitely my favourite Ducournau film and Agathe Rouselle is phenomenal 🔥
@notimportant36862 жыл бұрын
it was ok... don't go in expecting more than you should
@cognitiveharmony29502 жыл бұрын
I love how you talk film. We need you
@leoalvarez15432 жыл бұрын
This film is fantastic!!
@dejjibd4242 жыл бұрын
Yet another movie I need to see.
@NitramNetwork2 жыл бұрын
You know how Michael Bay shot the Transformers films with a pornographic sensibility? Well this is an extreme version of that except it's not trying to sell you toys
@pardeepbhakar49612 жыл бұрын
I have seen this and enjoyed it very much. It was well acted and bizarre.
@Claidheambmor Жыл бұрын
Need to watch this one
@ktt19772 жыл бұрын
I care what wins the Palme instead the Oscar. Oscar winners are safe bets for middle America.
@stephengibbons22602 жыл бұрын
Julia Ducournau's follow-up to Raw (a body horror film that I have huge affection for) is another original disturbing triumph for the French filmmaker. It's like if Cronenberg, Hitchcock & Carpenter had crazy wild sex, & the result ended up being a very oily baby.
@kosemekars2 жыл бұрын
It's not a bad film, but it's definitely a "critic film". Problem is it's getting lost in the metatextuality and the obsessive need to score thematic points. Is it about sex? About fatherhood? About gender? About technology? About France? Pick one (or more!). It feels more like an writing exercise than a film. Very nice body horror visuals though.
@maybebabyny2 жыл бұрын
I missed this apparently as I thought it was superficial and silly with a laugh out loud ending. I felt the same critic baiting grift with Crash. Maybe I have a disconnect with boning cars.
@oxman55712 жыл бұрын
Perhaps one day you might write something you thought of rather than something you copied and pasted.
@maybebabyny2 жыл бұрын
@@oxman5571 thanks for the idiotic compliment that you feel what I wrote must be plagerized.
@oxman55712 жыл бұрын
@@maybebabyny can't even spell "plagiarized" correctly, so I was probably right about his tendency to copy and paste other people's thoughts. He loses again. *puts Maybe to bed with a fresh diaper and a bottle of his daddy's milk.*
@maybebabyny2 жыл бұрын
@@oxman5571 spell corrections from finger typing is the best you have? Way to ignore the reply as your feeble mind cannot grasp the challenge.
@oxman55712 жыл бұрын
@@maybebabyny needs a pacifier and some warm milk before he's put back to beddie-bye. He loses again.
@shuaigege12345 Жыл бұрын
So I Saw the Devil was a bad film marred by it’s brutality but this one’s a masterpiece? Also u explain the themes and seem to think explaining themes explains why the movie is good. It doesnt. All movies have themes. So what? You do this every time.
@bluehunterboy2 жыл бұрын
its my favourite film of 2021
@megamoviez2 жыл бұрын
One of my top 5 of the year
@andrewkawam26032 жыл бұрын
Same here. Up there IMO with 'Dune: Part One', 'The Green Knight', 'Nine Days', and 'Lamb'.
@megamoviez2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewkawam2603 Nine Days was a 2020 film for me because I saw it at AFI Fest 2020. Amazing film though. The rest are great too.
@megamoviez2 жыл бұрын
@@andrewkawam2603 For me it’s alongside Licorice Pizza, C’mon C’mon, Spencer, and Dune: Part One
@JosephPage2 жыл бұрын
Here's the 32,000 dollar question though: sure, this is a film that is "talking about gender, the body, love, fatherhood" - but what is it actually *saying* about those things? I came out of the film with a friend of mine, and she thought the movie was a blast purely on an aesthetic level, and I came out of the film extremely concerned at how the film seemed to be implying that trans people cannot and should not escape their biological "reality", and that father figures are essential for emotional stability, both of which horrified me. Maybe I'm just an over-sensitive leftie, but I'd really like films to be deconstructed and confronted on the basis of the ideology they depict, rather than "it talks about x and is therefore good" or the extremely irritating "it gets people talking and is therefore good"
@RYNO25112 жыл бұрын
Interesting take, I didn't really see it as her needing a father figure though, more like 2 lost souls finding each other and finding genuine love and humanity through their bond. There's a lot more to it than that but that was just my take away. I personally don't really think the film is "trying to say" much, as much as it is just a sensory and emotional experience that one can relate to on an innately humanistic level.
@Theo-bb6pn2 жыл бұрын
Besides your point about trans limitations, which I disagree with you on, I most blatantly don’t think the movie is saying fathers are “needed for emotional stability”. She murders *before* she kills her first father, and tries to kill her second when he has made it most clear that he will protect her. She then proceeds to try and kiss her new father figure, hardly an emotionally stable reaction to the quite literally undying care he attempts to show for her. Just on your trans point - Alexia didn’t show any Gender Dysphoria as far as I could see, she even tries on a dress in the kid’s home, so she’s not a trans person nor is she trying to be one. She doesn’t actively renounce womanhood at any point in the movie, she is just able to inhabit a man’s world because of how they perceive her, and how she begins to perceive herself. There’s 2 dance scenes (both the purple bar sequence and the “she’s not there” home scene) where she flicks between her “feminine” dance style and a more masculine moshing style multiple times. Also would be hard for the movie to dissect the limitations of being trans when there’s no look at hospitals and surgery / hormone therapy
@sambkingmusic2 жыл бұрын
It was definitely a cisgender take on a transgender narrative, but I'm not sure it was insisting on either of those things. I'm not sure the protagonist needed a father per-se (or perhaps only through particular circumstance because her previous father had failed), and I doubt the message was that this should be a universal experience.
@RYNO25112 жыл бұрын
@@sambkingmusic why is it specifically a transgender narrative though? I don't think that's the focus at all, sure there is an element of gender fluidity but it's not the centre of the narrative
@Thomas152 жыл бұрын
Is that the ideology of the film though, or the ideology you brought to it? There’s no reason to believe that Alexia is trans; she adopted a new identity for different reasons. Aside from using gender as a means of escape, why would this film have any implications for trans people?
@bmmcloughlin2 жыл бұрын
Terrific review of a terrific film =)😀
@rossleeson86262 жыл бұрын
I must’ve missed something with this film because by the end I was just like . . . Why? It was a joy to watch yeah but what was it about? Pretentious films are fine this film was kind of lacking self awareness. The fathers character was so good but still . . . Why?
@TxxT332 жыл бұрын
Oh wow this is a surprise
@horganjames2 жыл бұрын
It’s beautifully made, but really quite a silly movie.
@108noonoo2 жыл бұрын
I hated this film. I love art house films and films that go on the edge cinema. But this film for me was boring and very unfocused.
@krumpoboing14042 жыл бұрын
One of the most exciting films I've seen since Fury Road. Also, weirdly heart-warming, and with humour reminiscent of Joker
@misssutherby1027 Жыл бұрын
Superb!
@jamesharris570710 ай бұрын
I love extreme cinema and horror, and I thought this was a profoundly boring and confused film
@----t----1234 Жыл бұрын
I thought this film was a mess
@siriusvenus87082 жыл бұрын
The art involved in this review is the review itself and not the film---which I could not tolerate for more than a few minutes scrolling ahead all the violence and sex stuff was too much. I think the subject matter you elaborate so eloquently on could have been done more tastefully in the film itself. I thought it was trashy and rude, the film I mean. It was a more viscerally-oriented slimy sort of sexual movie with violence interlaced. Creepy and disgusting. You comment makes it seem like an art work on a higher plane so thank you for your artful depiction which does make me think on themes without all the gory sexualized visuals that truly are unnecessary. I think you give the film too much credit for underlying meaning.
@uiscepreston2 жыл бұрын
Sorry that Mark missed that the film is also about redemption via making the ultimate hybrid vehicle.
@ravidoubleday21992 жыл бұрын
average movie. Overhyped. Inferior to Raw in every way
@guest_informant2 жыл бұрын
A car crash of a film :-)
@Tom-rg2ex2 жыл бұрын
The movie is French, so before watching this review I'm gonna guess that Mark loves it.
@KevTheImpaler2 жыл бұрын
Watched it. On the + side: nudity. On the - side: it is really, really unpleasant. It is like David Cronenberg. The bits which are not actively repellent are boring.
@samtheking252 ай бұрын
I hated it
@waynedevonald93352 жыл бұрын
Absolute rubbish! One of the worst films I have ever seen!x
@mrcbi46011 ай бұрын
You haven't watch many movies then
@waynedevonald933511 ай бұрын
@mrcbi460 I watch at least 1 Movie or a TV series episode a day!x
@mrcbi46011 ай бұрын
@@waynedevonald9335 Good for you my man!x
@GoldenGyroBalls2 жыл бұрын
Better than Raw in every conceivable way. Long live the female flesh.
@BRD5292 жыл бұрын
Maybe the worst film I've seen all year. I will never understand the love.
@robertpetre93782 жыл бұрын
Car sexual Dairy Car
@Jack-dk7uu2 жыл бұрын
Utterly vile film, empty provocation without merit
@sambkingmusic2 жыл бұрын
what a moronic take.
@blackcoffeeinbed2 жыл бұрын
A nasty, vicious, ugly little flick that is enthralled with its own performative transgressiveness - you know, one of those films that yells “Look at me! Look how edgy I am!” without saying a damn thing. Trash and cynical not in the John Waters so bad it’s good kind of way.