Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorFrench director Julia Ducournau, who burst onto the world filmmaking scene in 2016 with her first feature “Raw,” is changing the vocabulary of cinema with her heart-stopping imagery and boundary-blurring approach to genre.That originality helped propel her second film, “Titane,” to a Palme d’Or in Cannes this year, making Ducournau just the second woman to win the prestigious prize after Jane Campion. “Titane” is the story of a young woman who has a metal plate fitted in her skull after a terrible accident as a child.
On the run after a series of violent encounters, she finds refuge at a fire station, and a father figure in a fire chief, played by veteran French star Vincent Lindon.
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