Review of Titane (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 30 Mar 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

Provocative, disturbing, shocking? No, because the "very French and self-satisfied chic dress [...] keeps at a distance anyone who is not surprised by a confused, unrealistic, studied at the table provocation" (Emanuela Martini). "Titane" begins with "L'homme machine" (1747) by La Mettrie and "Crash" by Ballard/Cronenberg in a gender liquid version, "pansexuality, hybridization, identity redefinition beyond the registry office and biology" (Raffaele Meale), and if at the base there is all the cyberpunk with Carpenter ("Christine" 1983) and Tsukamoto ("Tetsuo" 1989) as well, Refn, Noé, Carax are grafted onto it, rendered emotionally aseptic. "It continues like a cyber horror to then go to get tangled up in the mélo [...] Too ambitious, narcissistic and fashionable" (ibid.).