Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
Gagnant de la Palme d'or, Festival de Cannes 2021
Alexia, a young woman with a titanium prosthesis, develops a strange fascination for cars. After a series of shocking events, she finds herself involved in a story of stolen identity, masquerading as a missing man.
Julia Ducournau
Julia Ducournau is a French director and screenwriter. A 2008 graduate of the Fémis film school, she captured the attention of the press and won several awards with her first feature, Grave (2016). In 2021, her second feature, Titane, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making her the second woman to win the award and the first to win it alone. Today, she is considered one of the leading figures in genre cinema.
