![]() Sixteen-year-old Justine arrives at school a virgin, and the discovery of her forbidden appetites overlaps with her entering the realm of adult sexuality. Metaphorical readings of Justine’s awakening are inevitable, and the film courts them, to some extent. ![]() I took the idea of cannibals, but can be applied to many, many things.” It’s too painful to face that we humans have these parts in us. We say that they are inhuman because we don’t want to acknowledge them as being our equivalent. People tend to say they’re inhuman, but that’s not true. “Cannibals are not vampires or werewolves, they’re real people. “For me, cannibalism was the biggest taboo,” she says. But it turns out none of those meats are an acceptable substitute for what Justine really craves: human flesh. She slips a hamburger into her pocket in the school cafeteria, and progresses to gnawing on raw chicken breasts in the middle of the night. By those standards, being forced to eat a raw rabbit liver doesn’t seem too bad, but Justine and her family are devout vegetarians-in the opening scene, her mother bawls out a surly rest-stop waitress who sneaks a bit of sausage into Justine’s mashed potatoes-and complying triggers a hunger in Justine she’s never known before. New students undergo a fierce and prolonged hazing process, from having their belongings repeatedly tossed out the window and into the quad, to being drenched in animal blood. It’s set at a French veterinary school where Justine (Garance Marillier) is following in the footsteps of her parents and her older sister, Alexia (Ella Rumpf). The “return of the repressed” figures heavily in Raw, the 33-year-old Ducournau’s first theatrical feature.
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