We say that they are inhuman because we don’t want to acknowledge them as being our equivalent. People tend to say they’re inhuman, but that’s not true.
“Cannibals are not vampires or werewolves, they’re real people. “For me, cannibalism was the biggest taboo,” she says.
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Murder was too common, and making a movie about incest didn’t appeal to her, so that left the third, which also fit her interest in the human body and the stigmatization of behavior. She knew she wanted to attack a taboo in her theatrical debut, and she narrowed it down to what she considered humankind’s big three: murder, incest and cannibalism. The next year she co-directed a feature, Mange (Eat), with Virgile Bramly, for French TV. The Paris-born Ducournau went to film school at La Fémis, cut her teeth as a story editor and script consultant, then directed a short, “Junior,” which played at Cannes’ Critic Week in 2011. But it turns out none of those meats are an acceptable substitute for what Justine really craves: human flesh.Ī cut above: Ducournau debuted Raw at Cannes 2016, where it took home a FIPRESCI prize for best first film She slips a hamburger into her pocket in the school cafeteria, and progresses to gnawing on raw chicken breasts in the middle of the night. By those standards, being forced to eat a raw rabbit liver doesn’t seem too bad, but Justine and her family are devout vegetarians-in the opening scene, her mother bawls out a surly rest-stop waitress who sneaks a bit of sausage into Justine’s mashed potatoes-and complying triggers a hunger in Justine she’s never known before. New students undergo a fierce and prolonged hazing process, from having their belongings repeatedly tossed out the window and into the quad, to being drenched in animal blood. It’s set at a French veterinary school where Justine (Garance Marillier) is following in the footsteps of her parents and her older sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf). The “return of the repressed” figures heavily in Raw, the 33-year-old Ducournau’s first theatrical feature. And then I saw myself in that bedroom, watching the movie. Ten years later, I was a teenager, and someone told me, ‘You should watch this movie it’s awesome.’ I watched it and I realized I had seen it before. The thing is, I only remembered it afterwards. I guess the people whose house we were at must have had cable TV. So they just put me in the bedroom with the TV, and I changed the channels. “Probably my older sister was sleeping at a friend’s and they didn’t find a babysitter or something.
“My parents brought me to a dinner party, I think,” she recalls. (She’d also rather you not call her a horror director, but we’ll come back to that.)
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