Julia Ducournau is a French director born in Paris, celebrated for visceral body horror examining desire, transformation, and the boundaries of the human form. Raw, following a vegetarian veterinary student who develops an uncontrollable craving for meat, including human flesh, after a hazing ritual, established her unflinching approach to bodily transgression rendered with genuine emotional complexity beneath its shocking premise. Titane, an even more extreme fusion of body horror, gender fluidity, and unexpected tenderness following a woman who can conceive after intercourse with a car, won the Palme d'Or, making Ducournau only the second woman in history to receive the award. Ducournau's fearless embrace of extreme bodily transformation in service of genuine emotional and thematic depth has made her one of the most significant and boundary-pushing contemporary genre directors. Read more