Julia ducournau still explorers sexuality, puberty, body image, and briefly touches upon the idea sisterhood. Neon acquires north american rights to julia ducournaus. The next year she codirected a feature, mange eat, with virgile bramly, for french tv. Julia ducournau doesnt think her film raw is about animals.
Everyone but vegetarians will feast their eyes on raw grave, a cleverly written, impressively made and. Sixteenyearsold, and an exceptional student, she is about to start studies at a veterinarian school where her older sister is also a student. Furthermore, julia ducournau age is 36 years as of 2019. Neon has acquired north american rights to writerdirector julia ducournaus titane, a new french film about, well, well find out later. After being diagnosed with stomach flu, juniors body undergoes a bizarre metamorphosis. Its canneswinning feature takes a lot of inspiration from the artists canneswinning short junior back in 2011, another story about a young girls metamorphosis. But, she has barely arrived when the hazing starts. She directed a short, 2011s junior, about a girl who sheds her skin, snakelike, after. Avec garance marillier, yacine ndiaye, aude briant, virgil leclaire, louis dussol. Neon acquired domestic rights to titane, a french film written and directed by raw filmmaker julia ducournau. Its especially great for this story, which is so much more nuanced and interesting than what the plot itself would indicate. Julia ducournau celebrity profile check out the latest julia ducournau photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at rotten tomatoes. I found this short film to be a great debut for french director julia ducournau, she uses a. When raw screened at midnight at the toronto film festival an ambulance was called to the cinema after spectators fainted.
Garance marilliar is fantastic as well as the entire cast. Raw was written and directed by julia ducournau, and i cannot believe this is actually her feature film debut. The film was selected for viewing at the critics week at the cannes festival. A very french discussion with raws julia ducournau. Fiction duree 21 minutes 30 produit par kazak productions synopsis. The only thing holding junior back from being a great film is the pacing. Justine, who goes by junior, is a yearold tomboy with pimples and a unique sense of humor. The move comes as the film distributor looks to expand thei. The next year garance appeared in the short movie its not a cowboy film in 2012 which was again selected to be. Her first film, junior, is about a girl who after contracting a stomach bug began to shed her skin like a snake. In 2011, her short film junior won the petit rail dor at the 2011 cannes film festival. While we diagnosed her a lightning gastroenteritis, juniors body becomes the theater of a strange metamorphosis. Her work as writerdirector includes the tv movie mange 2012 and the short junior cannes critics week 2011.
Justine, nicknamed junior, age thirteen, spots and a good sense of humor of her own, is a. I think im strange writerdirector julia ducournaus raw might be taking the horror world and cinema in general by storm this year, but its success wasnt simply born out of thin air. How did you and garance first come together to make the 2011 short film, junior. Julia ducournaus career julia started her career by directing and screenwriting a short film, junior in 2011. After unexpectedly contracting a stomach virus, her body becomes home to a bizarre metamorphosis. With garance marillier, yacine ndiaye, aude briant, virgil leclaire.
She directed a short, 2011s junior, about a girl who sheds her skin, snakelike, after contracting a stomach bug, and then. Neon nabs raw director julia ducournaus titane for. Some scenes feel very rushed and are quickly done with. She has also made several shorts, including corpsvivants 2005 en junior 2011. Home other film julia ducournau doesnt think her film raw is about animals. Julia ducournau is a french film director and screenwriter. Julia started her career by directing and screenwriting a short film, junior in 2011. Julia ducournau bio, net worth, movies, husband, dating. Neon has acquired the north american rights to raw director julia ducournaus next feature, titane. Julia ducournaus flesheating french thriller premiered in the cannes critics week. Raw tells the story of justine garance marillier, an academically gifted and reserved young woman, starting life at veterinary school. Raw director julia ducournau on how to make a horror film as.
Justine, who goes by junior, is a yearold tomboy with pimples and a unique. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film. Raw will premiere at the 2016 cannes film festival on may 14. According to her bio, each of her films has been about physical transformation. Fortunately, i and those in attendance at a curzon bloomsbury screening got an opportunity to pick the brain of the films auteur julia ducournau. Marillier began her acting career in 2011 by playing julia in the short movie junior by julia ducournau. Ducournaus short film, junior, which was awarded the rail dor at cannes last spring, features a comical tomboy in the process of becoming a monsterin other words, a woman, or as ducournau wryly suggestscoping with eerie, slimeoozing sores that mysteriously appear on her body. Dawnn lewis, height, net worth, bio, divorce, zombie. Raw 2016 julia ducournau synopsis, characteristics. Not to mention, the film won the petit rail dor at the 2011 cannes film festival. She hadnt acted before, and was actually training to be a musician at school. In justines family everyone is a veterinarian and vegetarian. In 2011, junior won the petit rail dor at the 2011 cannes film festival.
Titanes plot is being kept under wraps, neon says, and. Raw emits the same mood as the cow heart dissection in my 12th grade human anatomy class staring at the wet mound of pale red flesh soak through the brown paper towel, i thought, this is probably the only time you will ever touch a cow heart in your life, in blinking neon letters. Ducournaus short film junior won the petit rail dor at cannes in 2011. Julia ducournaus films include raw, junior, mange, and titane. I was looking for a tomboy, and because i was only seeing obedient little. Julia ducournau film profile, the debut feature that took the audiences breath away in critics week at the 69 th cannes film festival cineuropa. She studied screenwriting and has an amazing grip with the story as well. A subtle mixture of fantasy and comedy, junior is a brilliant illustration of julia ducournau s talent for genreshifting fiction. Both of these movies along with raw, people started to question her obsession with body horror. Justine, nicknamed junior, age thirteen, spots and a good sense of humor of her own, is a tomboy.
The first feature film by french filmmaker julia ducournau and. Raw has good continuity with your short film, junior, and your film for tv, mange, but this time, you take things to the extreme. Writerdirector julia ducournaus raw might be taking the horror world and cinema in general by storm this. Unclassifiable and boundarybreaking like her later feature, junior recounts the tale of the metamorphosis of a teenage girl, portrayed by a very young garance marillier, who would later become raws star. Find films and movies featuring julia ducournau on allmovie. While we diagnosed her a lightning gastroenteritis, junior s body becomes the theater of a strange metamorphosis. Julia ducournau born 18 november 1983 is a french film director and screenwriter. Raw 2017 julia ducournau talks about her experience making the movie duration. If she wanted cringe and gruesomeness out of spectators, then. Her first featurelength film raw 2016 premiered at cannes.
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