Alexia’s decision making can seem opaque and erratic the reality of the world around her similarly shifts from moment to moment. She then showers, makes passionate love to a vrooming car (which somehow impregnates her), and goes on a killing spree. After a car show one night, she brutally murders a man who forcibly kisses her. I’ll try to sum up Alexia’s journey as briefly as possible. Read: What a weird movie about a puppet reveals about the nature of evil Ducournau challenges viewers to find the humanity in a character who seems intent on rejecting her own, all while provoking as many laughs as gasps. What follows is intense, unbelievable, and viscerally violent-but also strange enough to register more as a surreal comedy than a shocking piece of horror.

After that, she relates more to automobiles than to people and eventually takes a job as an auto-show model, writhing around on top of cars and largely ignoring her family. The viewer meets the protagonist, Alexia (played by Agathe Rousselle), as a child, when she injures her skull in a car crash and gets a metal plate inserted in her head. In her new film, Ducournau aimed to create a character that was “ impossible” to morally relate to. But compared with Ducournau’s follow-up, Titane, which won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Raw seems like a breezy, accessible fable. Like so many horror films, the work is suffused with metaphors about hard-to-discuss topics-in this case, sexual maturity and peer pressure. Her knockout debut feature, Raw, follows a veterinary student who develops a craving for uncooked flesh, mostly of the human variety. Julia Ducournau does not make movies that audiences are likely to see themselves in.

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