2021 > France > Directed by Julia Ducournau 

With Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh 

Titane was this year’s Palme d’Or winner at Cannes, an outcome that is nearly as shocking as the film itself, given the walkouts, fainting, and laughter it met at its premiere. A film with a trigger-warning list a mile long (this movie is not for those easily disturbed by violence, sexual or otherwise), “Titane is an essay, etched in rivulets of blood and oil, on the mutability of gender and the pliability of desire.” (LA Times) More at titanemovie.com 

1 hr 44 min