Agathe Rousselle
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Vincent Lindon
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Garance Marillier
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Lais Salameh
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Bertrand Bonello
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Dominique Frot
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Nathalie Boyer
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Anais Fabre
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Myriem Akheddiou
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Lamine Cissokho
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Mara Classe
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Céline Carrére
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Agathe Rousselle | Vincent Lindon | Garance Marillier | |||
Lais Salameh | Bertrand Bonello | Dominique Frot | |||
Nathalie Boyer | Anais Fabre | Myriem Akheddiou | |||
Lamine Cissokho | Mara Classe | Céline Carrére |
Agathe Rousselle | Vincent Lindon | ||
Garance Marillier | Lais Salameh | ||
Bertrand Bonello | Dominique Frot | ||
Nathalie Boyer | Anais Fabre | ||
Myriem Akheddiou | Lamine Cissokho | ||
Mara Classe | Céline Carrére |
Unnerving newcomer Agathe Rousselle plays Alexia, a young woman who – following an accident in her childhood – has an unusual bond with cars, consummated by a strange encounter with one of the vehicles she writhes on in her job as a motor show dancer. When her murderous tendencies make her a fugitive, she disguises herself as a boy and forms a very ambivalent bond with the chief of a firefighting unit (French A-lister Vincent Lindon, venturing way outside familiar territory).
Gender fluidity, familial subversion, techno-sexual delirium and full-on violence take Titane (French for titanium) into the far reaches of genre futurism, with Ruben Impens’ cinematography pushing a trash-pulp aesthetic to a hyper-sophisticated new level. It’s extreme-dream cinema that pulls no punches in its KO.