Who is Julia Ducournau: all about the French director

Julia Ducournau is a French director and screenwriter, born in 1983 in Paris. During the Cannes Film Festival it marked history as it won the Palme d’Or. The news caused a sensation for both his young age, and therefore the ability to obtain such an important award at just 37 years old, both to be the first woman to obtain the Palme d’Or in its entirety.

Before her, twenty-eight years ago, only one other woman, Jane Campion, succeeded. His title, however, was halfway with Chen Kaige.

Who is Julia Ducournau

Julia Ducournau hasn’t been in the world of cinema for long, after graduating from the 25-year-old La Fémis, French National School of Cinema, in 2008 he produced a short film and two feature films. Despite the little experience, this did not stop her from win the Palme d’Or during the 74th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Julia says she worships Cronenberg and to be passionate about the horror genre and Hitchcock, in fact, his film Titanie is a mixture of science fiction and horror. Before this great success he had produced a short film Junior which was presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. Subsequently he produced his first feature film in 2016, Raw – a raw truth, of the horror genre, the film deals with the life of a university student who changes inexorably following a hazing event where, from there, she will become a cannibal.

Thanks to this he brings home the FIPRESCI Award in 2016, while two years later he obtained three nominations for the César Prize. His third feature film Titane, released in 2021, it won her the Palme d’Or.

Titane: the film that marks history at the Cannes Film Festival

The film is available in cinemas from 14 July 2021, the day after the preview at the festival. Spike Lee, director, screenwriter, actor, film producer and writer as well president of the jury, called Titane crazy, with ideas that flow between genius and madness. The winner of the Palme d’Or, despite marking a piece of Cannes festival history as Julia, the second woman in 74 years to receive the award, has sparked controversy. The film indeed does not conform to the tastes of the general public, but despite this the jury chose to award him as symbol of inclusiveness. The director had the courage and originality to create a film that is both extreme and violent mix the horror genre with the science fiction one.

The plot is about a little girl named Alexia who undergoes extreme surgery following a car accident. The doctors, to save her, operate with a titanium insert inside the head. This will change the child making her grow up with a hard, lonely and killer soul. The strangest thing that creates controversial opinions is Alexia’s strange obsession with Automobiles, so much to “do sex”With one of these and remain pregnant. The born son it will be human with metal components, this is a great symbol of inclusion for the jury.

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