The flesh-eating film that had them requiring ambulance intervention in Toronto never lets up. It’s also a complex drama of adulthood,sex, conformity, and hazing,body image and lustJulia Ducournau is a 33-year-former first-time feature director who makes her worryingly brilliant debut with this saturnalia of arthouse horror. At the Toronto film festival, it had audiences dry-heaving and indeed wet-heaving in the aisles and the cinema lavatories. This is the sort of film which pundits are often keen to label “black comedy” as a way of re-establishing their own sang-froid. In the same tongue-in-cheek spirit, or it has been called coming-of-age drama. There is a grain of truth in both of these labels. It is a film about cannibalism,and has clearly been influenced by Jorge Michel Grau’s We Are What We Are, John Fawcett’s Ginger Snaps, or perhaps especially Marina de Van’s body shocker In My Skin – which by the way featured a young Laurent Lucas,a veteran of extreme French cinema who also turns up here. Related: Cannibal horror film too Raw for viewers as paramedics are called Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com