Julia Ducournau
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The best in film 2017, according to the Dublin Film Critics Circle
- Film
- December 14, 2017, 16:38
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(...)

'Not everybody wants to confront death. And pay for the ticket'
- Film
- April 27, 2017, 06:30
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(...)

Raw review: a terrible beauty is born
- Film
- April 5, 2017, 11:15
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 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](/polopoly_fs/1.3028015.1490719071!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_140/image.jpg)
Cannibalism meets feminism in this new horror movie
- Film
- March 30, 2017
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(...)