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Horror is obsessed with the themes of female sexuality and how a young woman comes into her own, and that sexuality often becomes the catalyst for disastrous circumstances. From Psycho to Carrie to It Follows, horror is dependent on storylines that focus on women and their sexuality. It’s impossible to talk about horror without talking about women’s integral role within the genre. *WARNING: THIS PIECE CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS*

0 #DirectedByWomen The Female Gaze in Julia Ducournau’s Raw.

“She was really proud to have done this, afterwards she was really, really relieved in a way, and very proud. “I wanted to create this sense that the body is super tensed and is expecting something to come and hit her,” she said. It didn’t help that crew members had been prodding and poking the actor through the sheet. And when we finished shooting that scene, she was really in tears.

“I described it to her as alike when junkies try to come clean I showed her what I wanted to see a lot of – like Trainspotting and stuff.

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As the tension reaches its peak, Justine is shot tight and close in bed under a sheet, writhing and thrashing and scratching her skin as she physically fights her urges. “That was a big challenge for her”Īnother challenge was the physicality of the role. It meant Marillier had to switch between characters in a day, sometimes from one shot to another. “She is just so different between the beginning and the end – and obviously we couldn’t shoot in chronological order, I’m not that famous,” Ducournau laughed.

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Marillier’s character Justine morphs through the movie from virgin vegetarian to – well, it’s a cannibal film. “It allows us to push the boundaries further and further.” We trust each other very much,” the director said. “We are very, very close to each other in real life.

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Raw is the third film Ducournau has worked on with Marillier, after the director’s short film, Junior, and her TV movie, Mange. Otherwise I think nobody would believe it.” ‘When we finished shooting, she was in tears’ “If they’re always on their knees, there has to be a reason why – and the reason is because it’s cosy, it’s possible. It also meant they needed lots of carpeting on set. “Without me even saying a word to them, this seemed to give them a more animal-like posture,” she said. Julia Ducournau: ‘I wanted to give the impression of something that stinks a bit.’ The actors slouch and slump their shoulders, grasping at furniture to propel themselves through rooms whole scenes play out on the floor. The dorm beds are mattresses the chairs are barely cushions the desks are low and, if a character needs something, it will be at the bottom of the closet. So I asked the art director to put everything close to the ground.” “I wanted them to be like animals, on their all-fours, all the time, on their knees. But Ducournau wanted to somehow get her characters’ bodies to look less human, too. The heat and dank stickiness that pervades these rooms gives them a living, breathing quality that adds to the animalism of their inhabitants. “I wanted to give the impression of something that stinks a bit.” “When you look in the room of a teenager, you will always have some food that is mixed with clothes – and you always have these weird smells,” Ducournau said.

Much of the film takes place in college, particularly in college dorms, which swim in the organic, heaving messiness of teens. ‘From the first day of the shooting, I wanted to be completely OK with each other’s bodies,’ says Raw director Julia Ducournau. Of course, I asked them to drink beer as well.” and because they are different gender, it was important to me that they were completely at ease with each other.

“When you’re scared, you tend to get a bit closer to the person next to you. “When you watch horror movies together it creates something very intimate,” the director said. Under Ducournau’s orders, Marillier, Rumpf and Rabah Naït Oufella (who plays Justine’s gay roommate and love interest, Adrien) gathered at Marillier’s house before shooting began to watch scary movies. “Obviously I didn’t ask them to get naked in front of each other – I’m not a tyrant or a perv – but I did ask them to watch horror movies together.” “From the first day of the shooting, I wanted them to be completely OK with each other’s bodies,” Ducournau said. Key scenes revolve around intense physicality from the young actors, which meant the leads needed to get to know each other, fast. It should come as no surprise that a coming-of-age film about cannibalism, in which the protagonist is a virgin vegetarian woman, should be so much about flesh: the hating of it, the coveting of it, the grabbing and the biting of it. ‘ I asked them to watch horror movies and drink beer’ At the Paris press event, Ducournau examined a few of the techniques that had got her there.

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