Titane

A female figure lays across the hood of a Cadillac which has flames painted on the hood. Several onlookers appear in the background.

TITANE: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys, often used in medical prostheses due to its pronounced biocompatibility.

A Cannes Film Festival sensation and Palme d'Or winner, Titane is a feverish and jaw-dropping ride from the mind of Julia Ducournau. With a titanium plate surgically fused to her skull following a car crash as a child, car model Alexia embarks on a wild and ultimately unpredictable journey that brings her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years and ultimately questions our assumptions about family, identity and love.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with colleagues from the LGBT Resource Center and Gender Equity Resource Center.

Our annual French Film Festival is supported by Albertine Cinémathèque and presented in collaboration with the Department of Romance Studies.

Albertine Cinémathèque is part of the French For All initiative by Villa Albertine – The French Institute for Culture and Education, and Albertine Foundation, and is made possible with the support from the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée (CNC).

Part of our "French Film Festival". In French with English subtitles. Courtesy of NEON.