'Raw' Review: Raw to the core but makes you cringe for more!
9/10 That was 'Raw' to say the least, the debut feature film of French director Julia Ducournau, is both a cannibal horror movie and a coming-of-age movie, one in which the sexual awakening of its young protagonist Justine (Garance Marillier) sits alongside the birth of a more destructive, if similarly all-consuming kind of hunger. The film opens as the young teenager, brought up in a vegetarian family, heads off to college for the first time. Her destination – a (creepy) veterinary school, alma mater of both her parents and the current home of her older sister Alexa (Ella Rumpf), a senior student – in a Frankenstein’s laboratory of horrors: think about floating, detached organs and drugged farm animals. Justine’s career path may have been motivated by a desire to help animals: early on, she says, with evangelical seriousness, that she sees no difference between “a raped woman” and a “raped monkey”. But the practical callousness of her fellow students, and the way in w...