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| Directed by | Julia Ducournau |
| Produced by | Jean de Forêts |
| Written by | Julia Ducournau |
| Starring | Garance Marillier |
| Music by | Jim Williams |
| Cinematography | Ruben Impens |
| Edited by | Jean-Christophe Bouzy |
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| Language | French |
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| Box office | $400,714 (U.S. only) |
Raw (French: Grave) is a 2016 French-Belgian film written and directed by Julia Ducournau, and starring Garance Marillier. The film premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and was released in France on 15 March 2017 to critical acclaim.
Lifelong vegetarian Justine (Garance Marillier) arrives at veterinary school to start college, but a hazing ritual involving the consumption of rabbit kidneys at the urging of her upperclassman sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf) reveals a previously unknown desire for raw meat. First it starts off with a painful rash, and the craving builds. When Alexia accidently cuts off her finger in front of Justine, Justine is overwhelmed by her desire for flesh and begins to consume the finger. Alexia reveals this is a shared familial trait, showing how she forces people to crash their cars and die, becoming fresh meat for her to eat. The overwhelming nature of this craving is simultaneous to Justine's navigating veterinary school as a socially immature wunderkind, unprepared for the adult experimentations of college, including wild parties, drunken acts of violence, unpleasant teachers, and romantic feelings with her gay roommate Adrien (Rabah Naït Oufella). The sibling rivalry grows over time, leading to a climax where Justine discovers that Alexia has killed Adrien and eaten most of his right leg. The film concludes with Alexia in jail, and their father (Laurent Lucas) revealing to Justine that her mother has cannibalistic desires, and he discovered that while being with her at school. He opens up his shirt and reveals missing pieces of flesh from his chest and stomach, saying that he and her mother found a way to make it work.
Raw was screened in the International Critics' Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Prize.
During a screening at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, some viewers received emergency medical services after allegedly fainting from the film's graphic scenes. Ducournau said she was "shocked" to hear this during a Q&A after the screening.
The film will be released in the United States by Focus World on 10 March 2017.
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