As a child, Alexia (Agathe Rousselle) is in a serious car crash and has a metal plate fitted inside her head. Bearing a striking scar from the incident we meet her again as an adult, working as a dancer and living at home with her parents. She has an uncomfortably terse relationship with her father, who was driving the car at the time of the accident.
Events take a turn when Alexia murders a fan who is harassing her. It’s not her first homicide, it transpires, and Titane takes a step into some truly wild territory when, having had sex with a car (!), Alexia discovers she is pregnant and her body is producing a jet black motor oil. If all this sounds a little weird, rest assured… it is! But Ducournau skilfully offsets the oddity with some ferocious and bloody violence, so the film remains resolutely a horror movie and never laughable, despite how it might sound on paper.
As the police close in, Alexia goes on the run, assuming the identity of a missing person, Adrien. She goes to live with the boy’s father Vincent (Vincent Lindon), at a fire station, pretending to be his son and hiding her pregnancy from everyone.
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IMDB: Titane
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