titane the film

 titane is a mystery horror romance scifi comedy drama genderbending vaticdocumentary thats also genuinely emotionallymoving shocking fun   its transgressively transoedipal as the erotic female dancer false son tries to kill and sleep with the father failing at both and the circle of deathlife meets in violence and technology through a linear redemption of unconscious hate transforming into conscious love as grief meets grief and the polydirectional mutation of the body is propelled along an ovidian passion of loss

the entire thing should feel manipulative but doesnt   perhaps because its manipulations  like a buildings utility systems that have been intentionally placed in the open and brightly coloured  are pervasive apparent playful dialogical

the familys subverted as the bioparents are incinerated à la east of eden and the replacement false mother runs away into a false reality while the false father runs away into a true illusion and the false becomes the real through identity dissolution  surreptitious adoption  desperate acceptance

truth is subverted as the more thats revealed   care gender gestation sex love name  the more we fall into vorticial spins of doubt

the gazes subverted as we viewers are hardly any voyeurs of pain lust shame  but the movie stares deeply into us in our solidities and textbooks of tenderness

isnt the emotional climax of the film not when adrienalexia says i love you to their impossible teacher of love but when theyre dancing on the fire engine and the opposites dissolve on this loud red still questioning stage of vulnerable macho excess and inexplicable fate

the name is redeemed through acceptance  acceptance as unnameable love  and were born into unspeakable hybrids of oil and fire   the bodys an automobile and destructions subverted through a love thats indistinguishable from suffering

and who subverts the hairpin murder of the vengeful one? the one whos sick or old and absorbs the multiplications of identities into its body of pain to yank confusion into the terrible unity of the indominable present

three energetic recent screenings

céline and julie go boating

la flor

titane

see all three in a week  along perhaps with sátántangó  and try to keep them in your molecules  hidden in your eyes  as you move in a society that perpetually performs a similar pretending that pretends to differ in its fashions of hard conformity