Beneath Titane’s sensational and cartoonish sex and violence, lies a very tense, poignant drama about familial bonds. Lindon’s performance requires more than the kind of heavy lifting one finds at a gym. 'I didn't realise my parents had influenced my work until very, very late' And I don’t want anyone else, any other actor in France doing this job instead of me.” I’m writing a script for you.” And more than a year later, I get the script and I thought: this is me. One night at dinner she said: “Vincent, I want to tell you something.
“I have known Julia for years,” says the actor. Lindon spent two years lifting weights for his role. Rouselle trained in pole dancing, gained muscle and various prosthetics – including a belly and, in a nod to Hitchcock’s Vertigo, a scar shaped like a chignon. Given the film’s outlandish relationship with body horror, it seems appropriate that Titane required physical transformation. I’m personally very disturbed, enraged, hurt by the fact that for real in life, as women, we are constantly designated victims, the moment you get out of your home, and you get into the public, public space, you are treated like a victim.” I think that women’s violence in films is very constantly justified, which is kind of infuriating when you think about it because it’s not necessarily the case with guys. I didn’t want to give any real reason for that. However, I think that I tried to tackle her violence, not for the why of it, because I don’t like to psychologise that. I mean, she barely she doesn’t have any emotions, she’s really cold.
“Alexia, at the start of the film, I knew would be an unrelatable character. “As far as her violence is concerned, yeah, there was definitely something that was incredibly intentional,” adds the director. But I want women to know and see that it’s possible.” I don’t wish for women to become violent. I really hope that is going to make them think a little bit.
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I hope that men see this movie and take out the fact that if you try to harass or rape or do whatever to a woman, she could actually kill you. Women because we’ve internalised so much about this, about being victims. “There are not enough violent female characters, who are strong enough to reciprocate violence with violence. “I have always worn my hair short and walked a certain way at night so I am not attacked,” says Rouselle. 'I'm personally very disturbed, enraged, hurt by the fact that for real in life, as women, we are constantly designated victims' And, too often, to the female experience. It was cathartic.”įor both director and star, a major theme of Titane is the violence that is innate to the female body. And actually, since I’ve done the film, I haven’t had that nightmare anymore. And that I needed to do something with it. While I was very disturbed by it, I was also thinking that is a very strong image. And I was always very disturbed by that nightmare because I think somehow the proximity between this pure act of life and living and these dead metal parts was shocking. “It was a dream that traumatised me, in which I was in labour, and I was giving birth to parts of an engine. “That collision between flesh and metal, but it’s not just flesh, more like internal organs that comes from a recurring nightmare that I’ve had for a few years,” says Ducournau. Together they form a strange bond, while she straps down her swelling, pregnant body, and breasts that leak oil. On the run from the authorities, she poses as the long-missing son of a firefighter named Vincent, played by veteran French actor Vincent Lindon.
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Rouselle watched every episode of Killing Eve, TED Talks on serial killers, and the movies Monster and We Need to Talk About Kevin to prepare for the role of Alexia, Titane’s wild heroine who works at auto shows as an erotic performer, kills people and has sexual relations with a car. But actually, people really seemed to get it.” I honestly thought that because it tackles gender and not really wanting to be pregnant and difficult topics – that should not be difficult – but are, that people would be challenged. “Everyone seemed to agree it’s a great movie. “I thought the film was going to be way more controversial, which was not the case at all,” says Rouselle. 'That collision between flesh and metal, but it's not just flesh, more like internal organs that comes from a recurring nightmare that I've had for a few years'
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