Julia Ducournau

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Who doesn’t like a good war film?
The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle

The New York critics have decided. The Los Angeles critics have decided. And now the Dublin Film Critics Circle has awards its prizes for the year. Ch(...)

Heal the Living: The director worked with medical professionals and horror effects specialists to replicate the moment when the heart leaves the chest
'Not everybody wants to confront death. And pay for the ticket'

Different for girls? Not so much in France. Back in the 19th century, Alice Guy became one of cinema’s earliest auteurs, blazing a trail for other fem(...)

Impressively desperate: Garance Marillier in Raw
Raw review: a terrible beauty is born

It’s been a while since we’ve had a horror film that caused audiences to be hospitalised with acute disgust. Just such a headline-grabbing event occur(...)

Julia Ducournau: “When I was growing up I heard [my doctor parents] talking about diseases and I would picture them and fantasise about them.” Photograph: Jeff Spicer/Getty
Cannibalism meets feminism in this new horror movie

Move over, creepy pasta and found footage; there’s a dapper new kind of art-horror about town. A sub-genre that once looked to have peaked around 1977(...)