With time, Lucienne’s father has sinked into silence. The one who has always preferred his car to his daughter is now overwhelming her by his absence. In hope of finding the love she has never felt, Lucienne decides to eat the beloved car.
Julia Ducournau isn’t the only contemporary Francophone filmmaker revved up for vehicular lust. Two years before Titane, Geordy Couturiau debuted with a short similarly soaked in petroleum and fuelled by daddy issues. Cyborgian fusion with an Oedipal charge continues, here, to look very sexy indeed.
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