Titanium Pelicula Today

As the pregnancy progresses, the film forces the audience to reconcile the grotesque with the miraculous. Alexia’s body begins to leak black oil; her skin stretches in unnatural ways. Ducournau uses this visceral imagery to redefine the parameters of maternity. Alexia begins the film rejecting her own humanity and ends it fiercely protecting the life inside her, regardless of what—or how—that life is formed.

And she is pregnant. With a key.