Few filmmakers have emerged on the international scene with such immediate impact as Ducournau, whose first feature, 2016’s cannibal coming-of-age tale Raw, was a worldwide sensation, and whose second, 2021’s genre-bending fever dream Titane, won her the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Ducournau’s unflinching, clinical approach to body horror has established her as among the most distinctive artists working in genre film today, and while we await her next visceral, visionary work, we’re happy to have her at Metrograph to introduce the cinematic one-two punch that tore a bloody breach in contemporary film culture.

Julia Ducournau is a 2023 Villa Albertine resident
This event is being organized with the support of Villa Albertine
French Embassy in the United States