{"id":218,"date":"2025-11-03T23:29:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T04:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:42:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T22:42:43","slug":"titane-julia-ducournau-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"TITANE (Julia Ducournau, 2021)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The perfect film for the adventurous viewer who laughed during the climax of The Substance, or anyone who misses cinema that makes you react on a visceral and more instinctual level. It&#8217;s also my favorite girl-power film and one of the most surgically precise dissections of bro culture in any language. Satirical, surreal, and psychotic in equally heaping measure, French writer\/director Julia Ducournau pulls off a masterful mid-film change-of-gears when our titular heroine morphs from an relentlessly homicidal force to a vulnerable loved one, and the whole thing is filled with fantastical imagery fantastically filmed. <br><br>I&#8217;d suggest going into to blind and will just offer this quote from the director for your guidance: &#8220;The tools that I use are those of the body horror, comedy, thriller, and drama genres. These are the areas I feel comfortable working within, and they all go well together. Humor helps with catharsis when things are too dark, and provides distance: being able to laugh helps put things in perspective and is actually very healthy. That\u2019s how I use humor, to let things breathe a little bit.&#8221; <br><br>I felt faint the first time I watched it and couldn&#8217;t stop laughing and cheering the second time. Your mileage may vary.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/blog\/interview-julia-ducournau-titane-isabel-sandoval\/\">https:\/\/www.filmcomment.com\/blog\/interview-julia-ducournau-titane-isabel-sandoval\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perfect film for the adventurous viewer who laughed during the climax of The Substance, or anyone who misses cinema that makes you react on a visceral and more instinctual level. It&#8217;s also my favorite girl-power film and one of the most surgically precise dissections of bro culture in any language. Satirical, surreal, and psychotic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filmspiel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregneeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}