Julia Ducournau

The 50 Best Films of the New Millennium (Not Based on Existing Intellectual Property)

By Little White Lies

In an ambitious venture, we count down our favourite wholly-original feature films of the last two decades.

Check out the winners of our Titane x MUBI Creative Brief

By Little White Lies

We challenged you to create an automotive-inspired portrait of Agathe Rousselle: the results didn’t disappoint.

Could you create a portrait inspired by the automotive imagery of Titane?

By Little White Lies

Our favourite film of 2021 is heading to MUBI, and to celebrate, we’re challenging you to create a portrait of Agathe Rousselle inspired by the film’s mechanical imagery.

Agathe Rousselle: ‘It’s unusual to see dangerous women’

By Hannah Strong

The French model-turned-actor on getting into character for her breakout role in Julia Ducournau’s Titane.

Titane

By Sam Bodrojan

All hail the new flesh in Julia Ducournau’s dreamlike fable of a fractured young dancer grappling with the fire inside her.

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LWLies 91: The Titane issue – On sale now!

By Hannah Strong

Buckle up and say a Hail Mary as we take a peek under the hood of Julia Ducournau’s visceral Palme d’Or winner.

The 2021 BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced

By Adam Woodward

This year’s LFF programme comprises 39 per cent female and 40 per cent ethnically diverse directors/creators.

Julia Ducournau’s first film is available to watch for free

By Hannah Strong

Before she was a Palme d'or winner, Ducournau made a creepy little short about a teenager undergoing a strange transformation.

Titane – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Julia Ducournau’s sensational second feature offers an intoxicating mix of grease, gore and gasoline.

Fast cars and smashed spines abound in the first trailer for Titane

By Charles Bramesco

A car showroom model, a grieving father, and a woman with a mysterious past cross paths in Julia Ducournau’s latest.

15 films we’d like to see at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival

By Charles Bramesco

With Wes Anderson, Leos Carax and Paul Verhoeven locked in, we’re ready to keep the rumour mill turning.

From Zombies to Cannibalism: Finding Humanity in Julia Ducournau’s Raw

By Grace Lee

Grace Lee searches for meaning amid the so-called monstrosity of this superlative 2017 horror.

How to write a film score for an intimate character study

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

British composer Jim Williams discusses his work on Raw and Beast.

Drew Barrymore is joining the female horror revolution

By Sofie Steenhaut

The all-female Black Rose Anthology is a necessary catalyst for achieving gender equality in the genre.

How modern horror cinema is galvanising Generation Z

By Alice Bucknell

The likes of Raw, The Transfiguration and others speak directly to self-aware, socially-conscious teens.

All-female horror anthology XX is a worthy project poorly executed

By Elena Lazic

Annie Clark makes her directorial debut in this convention-flipping collection of shorts.

How Raw channels the bloody coming of age of Ginger Snaps

By Katherine McLaughlin

Both films express a uniquely female concern through visceral imagery.

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