Grave
Julia Ducournau
In Justine's family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she's a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies.
There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away.
Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences arise as her true self begins to emerge.
There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away.
Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences arise as her true self begins to emerge.
With : Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella, Joana Preiss, Laurent Lucas
Screenplay : Julia Ducournau
Image : Ruben Impens
Sound : Mathieu Descamps, Sévrein Favriau, Stéphane Thiébaut
Editing : Jean-Christophe Bouzy
Music : Jim Williams
Screenplay : Julia Ducournau
Image : Ruben Impens
Sound : Mathieu Descamps, Sévrein Favriau, Stéphane Thiébaut
Editing : Jean-Christophe Bouzy
Music : Jim Williams
Production : Jean des Forêts, Petit Film
Distribution: WILDBUNCH
Distribution: WILDBUNCH
Julia Ducornau graduated from the script department of La femis in 2008. After working as a consultant and writing collaborator, she directed her first short film Junior, selected at the Premiers Plans film festival and which won the audience award in the French short film selection in 2012. In 2016, she directed Grave, her first feature.
“My heroine's first name refers to Justine, ou les Malheurs de la vertu (Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue) by the Marquis de Sade, the story of a young innocent who becomes a sexual object and ends up enjoying it. Grave is focused on the construction of an identity and a morality within a perverted system – the system of hazing and of the family. If sex has its importance, the theme of heredity is central. My Justine constructs herself in relation to her impulse, which is a family curse. In the contact with her big sister, who has the same affliction, she will affirm herself, discover herself, accept or not, her difference”, Julia Ducournau.
“My heroine's first name refers to Justine, ou les Malheurs de la vertu (Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue) by the Marquis de Sade, the story of a young innocent who becomes a sexual object and ends up enjoying it. Grave is focused on the construction of an identity and a morality within a perverted system – the system of hazing and of the family. If sex has its importance, the theme of heredity is central. My Justine constructs herself in relation to her impulse, which is a family curse. In the contact with her big sister, who has the same affliction, she will affirm herself, discover herself, accept or not, her difference”, Julia Ducournau.