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89% Rotten Tomatoes Directed by Julia Ducournau Written by Julia Ducournau Music by Jim Williams Initial release 10 March 2017 (USA) Language French Music director Jim Williams | 7.2/10 IMDb 3.5/4 Roger Ebert Produced by Jean de Forêts Starring Garance Marillier Cinematography Ruben Impens Director Julia Ducournau Screenplay Julia Ducournau | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Garance Marillier, Rabah Nait Oufella, Ella Rumpf, Joana Preiss, Laurent Lucas Similar Cannibal movies, Coming of age movies, Horror movies Profiles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Raw (French: Grave) is a 2016 French-Belgian horror film written and directed by Julia Ducournau, and starring Garance Marillier. The film premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and was released in France on 15 March 2017 to critical acclaim.
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Plot
Lifelong vegetarian Justine (Garance Marillier) arrives at veterinary school to start college, but a hazing ritual involving the consumption of rabbit kidneys at the urging of her upperclassman sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf) reveals a previously unknown desire for raw human flesh. First it starts off with a painful rash, and the craving builds up over time. After accidentally displaying this hunger to Alexia by eating Alexia's finger that was cut off in an accident involving scissors during a Brazilian wax, Alexia reveals it to be a shared familial trait, showing how she forces people to crash their cars and die, becoming fresh meat for her to eat. The overwhelming nature of this craving is simultaneous to Justine's navigating veterinary school as a socially immature wunderkind, unprepared for the adult experimentations of college, including wild parties, drunken acts of violence, unpleasant teachers, and romantic feelings with her gay roommate Adrien (Rabah Naït Oufella). The sibling rivalry grows over time, leading to a climax where Justine discovers that Alexia has killed Adrien and eaten most of his right leg. The film concludes with Alexia in jail, and their father (Laurent Lucas) revealing to Justine that he's known about their cannibalistic desires, and let Alexia bite and chew on his chest when she was growing up.
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Release
Raw was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.
During a screening at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, some viewers received emergency medical services after allegedly fainting from the film's graphic scenes. Ducournau said she was "shocked" to hear this during a Q&A after the screening.
The film will be released in the United States by Focus World on 10 March 2017.
Reception
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports an 89% approval score based on 70 reviews and an average rating of 7.8/10. The site's consensus states: "Raw's lurid violence and sexuality live up to its title, but they're anchored with an immersive atmosphere and deep symbolism that linger long after the provocative visuals fade." On Metacritic, it has an 82 out of 100 rating based on 28 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
Catherine Bray of Variety wrote, "Suspiria meets Ginger Snaps in a muscular yet elegant campus cannibal horror from bright new talent Julia Ducournau." Katie Rife of The A.V. Club gave the film an A− grade, stating, "The strongest of the female-led films I've screened so far at the festival is Raw, Julia Ducournau's beautifully realized, symbolically rich, and disturbingly erotic meditation on primal hungers of all kinds."