In fact, I'd wager the folks at TIFF didn't swoon over the more overtly carnal scenes. One of Justine's classroom scenes demonstrates the sedation of a horse - a clinical, no-nonsense maneuvering of meat, skin, and bone - and Ducournau tunes it to an unsettling pitch on par with the film's gorier bits. Justines cravings are overpowering tempted by the raw chicken in her dorm fridge. RAW I Festival Publicity Footage I Cannes Critic’s Week l In theatres March 10, 2017. Ducournau directs with a constant energy, using shots economically, and never letting the tension or the heady current of electricity burn out. Julia Ducournau graces the cover of MovieMaker Magazine Winter 2017. To divulge too much would do a disservice, but Alexia essentially acts as a foil to Justine's purity, the older sibling who's already "learned the ropes" of their new found freedom and blurs the line between self-discovery and self-indulgence.īut Raw isn’t all allegory and overt metaphor (though there is a lot of that). There is a provocative and engaging subplot between Justine and her older sister Alexia ( Ella Rumpf) that drives Raw's deeper meanings home.
Exploring independence is messy, and discovering who you really are is dirty work. Ducournau uses the eating of human meat as a metaphor for sexual awakening and experimentation (sexual and otherwise), but Raw is just as interested in how our identity and concept of self evolves through exploration, and cannibalism also comes to represent Justine’s changing understanding of herself - both where she comes from and where she’s going.
Writer/director Julia Ducournau fields a Q&A following the Australian Premiere of RAW at Monster Fest 2016. Director:Julia DucournauWriters:Julia Ducournau (dialogue)Julia Ducournau (screenplay)Contact:View company contact information for Raw on IMDbPro.Release Dat. Perhaps that's what makes it so flawlessly fitting to Ducournau’s story about coming of age through carnage. Raw: Australian Premiere Q&A: Directed by Jarret Gahan. Justine immediately suffers a severe reaction that leads to rashes, peeling, and an intoxicating appetite for human flesh that grows more dangerous the more she indulges it.Īs far as horror allegories go, cannibalism is right up there with vampirism as a means of exploring corruption and carnal desire, but it’s definitely the dirtier and messier of the two. Those rituals are fairly familiar - barked demands from her “elders”, buckets of blood, interrupted sleep and invasions of privacy, but her life-long innocence is all but instantly corrupted when she conforms to peer pressure (from her older, wiser sister no less) and chomps down a rabbit kidney. The film follows Justine ( Garance Marillier), and idealistic virgin vegetarian (yes, the metaphors can be a bit on-the-nose), who is dropped off for her first year of veterinary college by her doting parents and immediately thrust into the madness and brutality of her school’s hazing rituals.
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