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- Grave
- 舐血成人礼
- Nyers
- 로우
- RAW～少女のめざめ～
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Raw
Raw is a 2016 French and Belgian cannibal film directed by Julia Ducournau.
A vegetarian vet student develops an appetite. Julia Ducournau's debut and a genuine coming-of-age film.
goreledger editorial rating: 8/10 · Read the review
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A vegetarian veterinary student develops an appetite, and it is a coming-of-age film with the coming-of-age left in.
Justine arrives at the school her sister already attends and is put through a hazing week that includes eating a raw rabbit kidney. Her body responds.
Julia Ducournau films the appetite as adolescence with total sincerity: the rash, the shame, the first time, the sister who has been through it and is no help. The two sisters are the film, not the cannibalism.
Garance Marillier is remarkable and was 19.
There was a widely reported story about paramedics at a Toronto screening, which the festival later described as more limited than the coverage suggested.
The bikini wax sequence is the one that empties rooms and it has nothing supernatural in it at all.
Goreledger editorial rating
8 / 10
A coming-of-age film with the coming-of-age left in, where the two sisters are the film and the cannibalism is the appetite of adolescence. Garance Marillier is remarkable. The bikini wax sequence empties rooms and has nothing supernatural in it.
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