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5 Female Directors on Why They Love Horror Movies
Julia Ducournau’s full-length narrative debut, Raw, stunned audiences at Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize, and at the Toronto Film Festival, where a handful of hardened Midnight Madness attendees reportedly fainted.
Young Justine (Garance Marillier) is a lifelong vegetarian and a virgin when she arrives at vet school, but a weird hazing ritual involving raw meat triggers an alarming change in her body, which suddenly craves all sorts of things it’s never wanted before. It’s a powerful metaphor for primal desires and the wildness of female sexuality.
Ducournau said her attraction to horror movies began when she was little. “These kinds of movies gave me answers about the meaning of life and mortality,” she says. Her main interest lies not so much in the female experience of horror or why the female body is the site of such fascination — despite the rich fodder her film offers — but “a reflection about [the] human condition and the dark side in humanity.”
Essential read over at NY Mag
Official Trailer: RAW
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LA Weekly calls RAW "Audacious"
Brendan Foley from Cinapse calls RAW "Finger Licking Good"
RAW is called "Disturbingly Erotic"
Meredith Borders at Birth.Movies.Death calls RAW "Beautiful & Brutal"
M. Night Shyamalan calls RAW "Powerful, Disturbing & Taboo"
Collider calls RAW "Weirdly Sexy Spin on Coming-of-Age."
Raw announced as part of the complete Lineup for "Rendez-Vous with French Cinema"
Justine longs for a little sliver of affection from Adrien.
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Justine is forced to eat meat for the first time in a college hazing ritual.
RAW makes the cover of Rue Morgue
RAW l Official Movie Clip [HD] l "Yellow And Blue Make Green"
RAW wins Gérardmer International Fantastic Festival The Grand Prize Award
RAW wins Gérardmer International Fantastic Festival Awards: The Grand Prize and The Critic's Prize
RAW wins Gérardmer International Fantastic Festival The Critic's Prize Award
Julia Ducournau graces the cover of MovieMaker Magazine Winter 2017
Paint Party Aftermath
Justine in Bed
IndieWire names RAW one of 17 best films of 2017.
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RAW US Official Poster
RAW I Festival Publicity Footage I Cannes Critic’s Week l In theatres March 10, 2017
Sundance Film Festival has announced Focus World's Raw in the SPOTLIGHT selections for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
5 Female Directors on Why They Love Horror Movies
Justine's cravings are overpowering; tempted by the raw chicken in her dorm fridge.
Focus World's RAW director Julia Ducournau awarded top festival prize at Monster Fest 2016, The Golden Monster.
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Garance Marillier as Justine
FocusWorld's RAW JuliaDucournau wins parallel section of the Cannes Fipresci Award
Rolling Stone Lauds "The Rise of the Modern Female Horror Filmmaker"
RAW director Julia Ducournau wins Best-Feature-Length-European-Film at for SITGES Méliès d’Argent Award.
Focus World's RAW award the Golden Blogos Award (Premio Blogos de Oro Semana del Terror 2016)
Bloody Disgusting Announces ‘Raw’ Release Date: March 10, 2017.
Ella Rumpf as Alexia
Rabah Naït Oufella as Adrien
RAW Writer/Director Julia Ducournau Honored at 2016 BFI London Film Festival
Hollywood Reporter announces "The Black List for Female Directors? New Survey to "Shine a Spotlight" on Rising Talent (Exclusive)"
RAW director Julia Ducournau wins new wave best director at Fantastic Fest
RAW director Julia Ducournau awarded citizen kane award best up-and-coming director
Garance Marillier is Justine. Ella Rumpf is Alexia.
RAW #FirstDayOfSchool March 10
