Titane will no doubt become the name on everyone's lips when it debuts in cinemas all around the world.
The horror-thriller has taken out the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and it certainly has some interesting elements to it.
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The film title is the French word for titanium, which is a central motif to the plot.
The synopsis is described as: "Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys."
It centres on Alexia who gets into a bad car accident when she's younger. She gets fitted with a titanium plate in her head that regularly gets displayed.
Instead of being afraid of automobiles, the woman develops a strange attraction to the machines, which escalates to the romantic (if you can call it that).
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At one point in the movie, she has sex with a car, gets pregnant with a car-human hybrid baby and even starts lactating ink-black oil. Yeah - it's wild.
She then embarks on a 'don't mess with me' journey and savagely kills several people without flinching.
There are 'bone-crunching fights and skin-splitting transformations' that cause the audience to wince, yelp and gasp, according to the BBC, who has labeled Titane the 'most shocking film of 2021' in a good way.
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Critic Nicholas Barber wrote: "Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or-winning film is a nightmarish yet mischievously comic barrage of sex, violence, lurid lighting and pounding music.
"Ducournau has driven to the boundaries of conventional cinema - and then put her foot down."
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Nicholas wasn't alone in his analysis, with the film already receiving an impressive 95 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Time Out's Philip De Semlyen said: "A dazzling, horrifying, tender, often brilliant, occasionally baffling and always wildly singular vision of lives and bodies in transition."
World of Reel's Jordan Ruimy added: "Ducournau is trying to go balls-out bonkers here, raising the insanity levels to 11. She has reinvented cinematic body-horror via a combination of Cronenberg, motor fuel and sex. It's really singular, shocking, repulsive and incendiary stuff."
While Vulture's Nate Jones wrote: "The whole way home, I noticed my teeth were chattering from the adrenaline. They've only just stopped."
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It hasn't yet secured an Australian release just yet but there's no denying it will be one to watch.
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