Fiction

Grave

Raw
Julia Ducournau
FRA, B 2016
99 min
V'17

In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. When Justine undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school in her first days, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her.
In her first feature Julia Ducournau tears down to the bone the messiness of young adulthood, in a film that owes as much to the exploration of female sexuality in the films of Catherine Breillat, as it does to the earlier body horror films of David Cronenberg. GRAVE is made by someone who understands deeply the audacity and vulnerability of youth, and finds its expression with such viscerality and raw (pun not intended) power. Certainly, coming-of-age films that use genre semantics are not uncommon, but GRAVE takes this to another level. (Shelagh Rowanlegg)

Credits
  • Garance Marillier - Justine
  • Ella Rumpf - Alexia
  • Rabah Naït Oufella - Adrien
  • Laurent Lucas - Father
  • Joana Preiss - Mother
  • Julia Ducournau
  • Ruben Impens
  • Mathieu Descamps
  • Jean-Christophe Bouzy
  • Jim Williams
  • Laurie Colson
  • Elise Ancion
Petit Film, Rouge International, Frakas Productions

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