The daughter of two doctors who showed their little girl Psycho at the age of eight, filmmaker Julia Ducournau is unapologetically the product of her environment. After her last visit in 2016 with …
, with Vincent Lindon and newcomer Agathe Rousselle. So far, all Ducournau is revealing is that the Titanium of the title is a “metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, giving very hard alloys, often used in the form of prostheses due to its biocompatibility.”
Julia Ducournau is ‘One To Watch’ in Deadline’s Cannes print magazine, with Lea Seydoux on the cover. This hint of man-machine mutation suggests the film is another body horror, a genre pioneered by Canada’s David Cronenberg, whose work Ducournau discovered—and binged on—after watchingHowever, the 37-year-old director doesn’t like to be pigeonholed. “I see my films as crossovers: comedy, drama, horror,” she has said. She also bristles at the notion of being seen as a woman working in a traditionally male stronghold. “I do believe that my movies talk to anyone,” she has said.