00:00Is it possible to win the Palme d'Or at Cannes with a film featuring a woman
00:04kills,
00:04She transforms and gets pregnant during a scene, with a car?
00:07Every day, I make a video about the Cannes Film Festival until Dailymotion invites me to
00:11Cannes Film Festival.
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00:15Put like that, it sounds like a joke.
00:17And yet, that's exactly what happened with Julia Ducourneau's Titan.
00:21In 2021, the film entered the official competition at Cannes.
00:25And that's where it becomes extremely divisive.
00:26Some call it a shock, others a film impossible to classify.
00:30It's somewhere between a thriller, body horror, family drama, and almost a monstrous tale.
00:34But Spike Lee, who is the president of the jury, makes a huge blunder.
00:38He announces directly that there is a Palme d'Or at the very beginning of the awards ceremony.
00:42Everyone understands ahead of time that Julia Ducourneau has just made history.
00:46She becomes only the second female director to receive the Palme d'Or.
00:50after Jeanne Campion for the piano lesson in 1993.
00:54The Cannes Film Festival awarded a prize to a violent, strange, radical film about bodies.
00:59lineage, identity and transformation with Titan, which is proof that in Cannes,
01:04Sometimes the weirdest film in the competition can become the most important film.
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01:12Subtitling by Radio-Canada
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