Director-to-watch Ducournau delivers horror with plenty of meat on the bone.
In the end, Raw turns out to be very well done as Ducournau serves up a tasty blend of gore, metaphor and mischief.
A classy French-Belgian horror with an unusual female perspective on monstrous taboos. Shocking but not sensationalist, this is a strong cannibal movie worth chewing over.
Julia Ducournau’s Raw is both the most repulsive film of the year so far – and one of the most original.
Julia Ducournau’s debut feature about a young woman’s emerging taste for human flesh is an exhilarating blend of horror, humour and heartbreak.
Cannibal film Raw is not meant to make you sick, says Julia Ducournau
Director Julia Ducournau.
How Raw channels the bloody coming of age of Ginger Snaps
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