I went into this as blind as I possibly could. All I knew about it going in was that it was a French film, a lot of critics I follow have brought it up as one of, if not the, craziest film of the year, and it was written and directed by Julia Ducournau, who also made Raw, which is one of my favourite films from 2017 (and it would’ve ranked pretty damn high had I actually written a best-of list for that year). Beyond that, I knew nothing about the plot or any potential inklings of theme, and quite frankly, I couldn’t have picked a better film to try this approach with this year. Partly because it helped make the specifics of the plot that much more bizarre (and this is pretty frickin’ weird as is), but mainly because figuring out what this whole mess is about is going to be that much more fun for me. So! Let’s dig in.
