Deauville Festival: what becomes of Agathe Rousselle, the electric revelation of “Titane”?
Rewarded by the Light of Female Revelation and nominated for the César, Agathe Rousselle will be forever marked by the experience. Titanium. “I didn’t really know what we were doing, but I knew the ambition was huge“, she says. “It was a project that was anything but ordinary and I quickly felt it in a physical way, if only because I was covered in prostheses and completely disfigured!“.
In this hybrid film, which borrows from Accident by David Cronenberg and Christina by John Carpenter, Agathe plays Alexia, a young woman who inherited a titanium plate in her skull, following a terrible car accident when she was a child. As an adult, she proudly shows off her scar – and her killer physique – in erotic shows for heavy-duty enthusiasts.
After a motorized encounter unlike any other, this androgynous amazon is drawn into a murderous spiral that forces her to change her identity. And pretending to be the missing son of a depressed firefighter, high on steroids, played by Vincent Lindon. Faced with the sacred monster of French cinema, the novice actress delivers an astonishing performance of courage and transgression.
