Review of Titane (2021) by Hesnotdrunk — 25 Oct 2021

A hollow post-modernist attempt at art, riff with nihilism and shock for shock's sake. All cheaply imitated style (Gaspar Noe & Cronenberg) with zero substance. Heavily influenced by Gaspar Noe's "I Stand Alone" and "Irreversible", with some sequences and characters almost directly ripped from these films.

Yet where Noe's films attempt, in some form, to portray some meaning in the meaninglessness via the characters who at least have some human goals (even when depicting the disturbing lead character in "I Stand Alone"), "Titane" simply portrays an inhumane caricature of emptiness that embodies the selfish self-destruction of the nihilistic mindset.

The film is as cold as the titanium in its heroine, marking its attempts at cheap "shock" with polarizing gimmicks that consistently fall flat. An utter waste of celluloid if there ever was one.

So why did it win the Palm d'Or? Politics, hijacked senses in an era of fear.