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How did you buy your ticket? View All Videos 1. View All Photos Movie Info. Stringent vegetarian Justine Garance Marillier encounters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. The young woman soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge. Julia Ducournau. Julia Ducournau , Julia Ducournau. Mar 10, limited.
Sep 5, Focus World. Garance Marillier Justine. Ella Rumpf Alexia. Rabah Nait Oufella Adrien. Bouli Lanners Le routier. Jean-Louis Sbille Le professeur de biologie. Julia Ducournau Director. Julia Ducournau Screenwriter. Ruben Impens Cinematographer. Jean-Christophe Bouzy Film Editor.
Jim Williams Original Music. Laurie Colson Production Design. Elise Ancion Costume Designer. Julia Ducournau Writer. Julie Gayet Producer. View All Critic Reviews Jul 18, So, for one reason or another, I put this movie off for quite a while. It was on my Netflix list for months now and I remember seeing it after I added it to my list seeing this mentioned in a list of gross movie I believe.
Now, as far as I'm concerned, saying that a movie is gross can, sometimes, be a term that can be overused. Though, I suppose, what's gross to one person might not be to me and I get that. But I felt that, if anyone can make a gross horror film, it's the French. Though, to be fair, this is a French-Belgian co-production.
Some of the more realistically grotesque horror movies, that I've seen at least, have come from France. High Tension, Martyrs, Irreversible, Inside which I haven't seen, I'll openly admit, but I do very much want to and that's just to name a few. I'm sure there's plenty more, and there's a list on WhatCulture. The thing is, though, that a lot of these films that invite controversy due to their incredibly violent and sexual nature, more often than not, explore themes that relate more to what's going on in the real world than, say, other genres.
They can be more relevant about societal, racial, governmental issues if they're handled effectively. The reason this is so is because horror films, often, don't have to worry about the line between good taste and bad taste because, again, they can be as upfront as they want.
The more uncomfortable it makes you, the better it achieves its goals. Movies about rape like Irreversible shouldn't be pleasant to watch. They should make you uncomfortable, they should be reprehensible, vile, nasty, disgusting, etc, etc, etc. Because actual rape is a disgusting and horrible act.
And, in France, where to my knowledge there's no tyrannical MPAA governing body handing down restrictive ratings and, even, sometimes ordering cuts be made from a film to get a more favorable and crowd-friendly rating, they can pretty much be as extreme as they possibly want without worrying about censorship.
Well, I mean, they have to worry about censorship if their film finds distribution on this side of the world. Regardless, let's move on to this movie, shall we? As far as grossness is concerned, I don't think it would even rate on my scale.
It's certainly violent and lurid, to be sure, but it's not exactly 'gross', at least to me. This is the type of movie, since it focuses on a teen girl's burgeoning desire to consume all types of flesh, eventually, leading to her turn to cannibalism, that not everyone will enjoy. That's for sure. Because, again, it's not necessarily a pleasant movie to watch when it decides it wants to portray some of the more But, in a lot of ways, this is still a surprisingly effective feminist coming-of-age story.
That they use cannibalism as a way to get to that doesn't negate what the story, ultimately, is. In many ways, of course, the narrative is also about Justine's sexual awakening after leading a, relatively, sheltered live in her home by a, somewhat, controlling mother and a father that, really, doesn't do much.
Justine, who comes from a family of vegetarians, is sent off to a vet school, where she's sort of a legacy, considering that her mother, father I think and sister have all attended this university. Her sister is in her second year, I believe. During a hazing ritual, she's force fed raw rabbit kidney by her sister, who wants her to not be rejected her first year by those 'above' her. This is when she starts to get a rash all over her body that she constantly scratches at.
This is, in my opinion, the grossest part of the entire movie. Just her constantly scratching it is, quite frankly, kind of a disgusting visual. The sound effects and the visual of her just constantly scratching at this rash are well-done because it made me think that she's about to peel her own skin off. I don't know what that says about me, that I find scratching more effectively gross than the consumption of human flesh for consumption and, at a later point, for pleasure.
The way I interpret the movie, and this is just my interpretation, is that this is a story about women who have been forced to control certain aspects of their personality because they are unsavory to the rest of society.
And, honestly, in this case, I can't say that I expect society to react any different to cannibalism. S, forces women to act a certain way or hide certain aspects of their personality that might not be pleasing to others.
And, let's be honest, since France is still a male-dominated society as are most countries in the world , this is perpetuated perhaps unknowingly by the men in these women's lives. So it's a movie that challenges that perception of the way women are told they should behave. I mean, again, that's just the way I see the movie. That's the beautiful thing about this movie, which is just steeped in symbolism, that you can glean whatever interpretation you want out of it and, technically speaking, you would not be wrong.
We all watch and react to films differently. For another person, this movie could be about something entirely different and, again, they wouldn't be wrong. That's just the way I see it. And Justine and her sister, Alex, are later ostracized for their Because, you see, Alex has also become some sort of cannibal. You get to learn more about them, but, in my opinion, that's one of the things that I'll leave for you to watch and figure out on your own.
There's a nice little twist at the end and, in theory, you get to see why Justine's life has taken the path it has. In all, I found this to be a very good and intelligent movie. Acting is great all around and the movie does provide some strong visuals with its cinematography. I will say, and this is something I saw on this movie's Wiki page under 'Reception', and that is the fact that some of its set pieces, if they can be called that, are a little forced.
Parts of it just feel unnatural and designed to get a reaction. It's few and far in between, of course, but they are there and, to me, that's part of what held this movie back, in my opinion.
Other than that, however, I really did enjoy this movie. I liked how the narrative progressed and it ends with a nice little twist. It almost makes cannibalism like the thing to do.
Just kidding, for fuck's sake. Seriously though, it's not gonna be everyone's cup of tea, but I thought this was a very good movie and one that I'd recommend based on how it's absolutely bound to get a reaction out of you. You could say all films do that, essentially, but I think this one forces you out of your comfort zone and makes you think.
Not many movies do that and, to me, even if you hate the movie, that makes it worth watching. Jesse O Super Reviewer. Sep 23, No dramas. Raw has got you sorted. Gimly M Super Reviewer. May 29, Justine Garance Marilliier, looking like a Gallic Rooney Mara comes from a family of vegetarians and veterinarians. She's entering a famed veterinary college as a legacy and her big sister, Alexia Ella Rumpf , is already established among the school hierarchy. The incoming students are mercilessly hazed and Justine is forced to eat meat against her will.
This moment unlocks a secret craving within her that consumes her. She starts looking at her fellow students less as dinner dates and more as dinner. The first half of the movie is dominated by the pressures, and in particular, the cruel hazing from the upperclassmen at the college. The hazing is extreme, rampant, and omnipresent, with every older classmate throwing around his or her sense of privilege and bullying the freshmen candidates.
It's the kind of harassment and abuse we've seen in other stories relating to fraternities and sororities where institutions of power abuse others because they were abused and so on and so on, normalizing the cruelty. However, those are organizations that are elective and enclaves among a larger campus. With Raw, it appears that every upperclassman is part of this system of hazing, meaning there is no escape if the young candidates want to continue their education. The professors seem complicit in their negligence, and Justine even has one professor who hilariously criticizes her for doing too well in class.
He says her good scores are depressing the other students, possibly making them become worse doctors. The overall impression of this scholarly environment is one of sickness and exploitation.
There's even a culminating "class picture" where they are bathed in buckets of pig? With this sort of build-up, I was anticipating that when Justine got her crazy cravings that the movie was going to set up some tasty just desserts for these sadistic upperclassmen.
I was looking forward to these mean people getting killed and eaten to service Justine. Perhaps that's the American version of what this movie would become, or my own preferred version with the established first half, but that's not the movie Raw ends up becoming. Stuck somewhere between body horror and weird compulsion, Raw falters trying to stake its own territory.
That's an excellent starting point for some cringe horror but Raw gets too lost in its dreamlike atmospherics. We explore rave-like revelries, hedonistic escapades, and the allure of the unknown.
The best part of the film is the deterioration of Justine's inhibitions as she gives in to her inner carnivore. There's an obvious carnality metaphor here college is a time for experimentation and there's a clear entertainment factor in watching a meek character assert herself. Her character gets lost in the oblique mystery that leaves a lot of unanswered questions and unclear motivations.
One minute our heroine is rejecting the pressure of her peers and the next she's nibbling on a severed finger. Her downward spiral doesn't feel adequately developed as she's immediately caught in the swirl of campus hazing. The progression feels phony. Outrageous things happen without a tonal grounding, and so it feels more like David Lynch dream logic. Photos Top cast Edit. Garance Marillier Justine as Justine. Ella Rumpf Alexia as Alexia.
Rabah Nait Oufella Adrien as Adrien. Bouli Lanners Le routier as Le routier. Virgil Leclaire Bizut couloir as Bizut couloir …. Danel Utegenova Bizute toilettes as Bizute toilettes.
Julia Ducournau. Julia Ducournau dialogue screenplay. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. As she leaves the family home, Justine abruptly moves into a mad new world of strange school traditions and vicious initiation tests, and before long, she will have to chew over her unshakable herbivorous beliefs. More and more, as Justine descends deeper and deeper into a hidden world of uncharted animalistic tendencies, an unprecedented and equally morbid craving for meat will transform her into something she would have never expected.
However, now that Justine's corporeal awakening is finally complete, is there a point in denying her hunger for raw flesh? What are you hungry for? Did you know Edit. Trivia The raw chicken that Justine is eating out of the fridge is actually sugar.
Garance Marillier said about the scene that while it didn't disgust her from chicken, it did disgust her from candies for life. Goofs In the end it is revealed that Justine's mother has the same cannibalistic tendencies as her and that her parents wanted to protect Justine by raising her as a vegetarian. However, her parents also sent her to the school where they went and knew the initiation required her to eat meat.
User reviews Review. Top review. A competent movie with believable characters. Careful, the movie you see in the trailer is not the one you get! It isn't necessarily a bad thing. It was just marketed the wrong way.
You expect a dark and highly stylized indie Nicolas Winding Refn-kind of movie. It is however a coming of age story which happens to include a very unusual element cannibalism.
You won't regret watching it if you know what you're getting yourself into. Details Edit. Release date March 15, Belgium. France Belgium United States. Frakas Productions Belgium Official site France.
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