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Grave
Raw
France / Belgium / Italy 2016
produced by Jean des Forêts for Petit Film, Rouge International, Frakas Productions
directed by Julia Ducournau
starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss, Bouli Lanners, Marion Vernoux, Thomas Mustin, Marouan Iddoub, Jean-Louis Sbille, Benjamin Boutboul, Virgil Leclaire, Anna Solomin, Sophie Breyer, Danel Utegenova, Bérangère McNeese, Morgan Politi, Alice D'Hauwe, Pierre Nisse, Maité Katinka Lonne, Amandine Hinnekens, Sibylle du Plessy, Denis Mpunga, Alexis Julemont, Lich Jaas, Helena Coppejans, Charlotte Sandersen, Christophe Menier
written by Julia Ducournau, music by Jim Williams
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Justine (Garance Marillier) is a vegetarian, and has been so for all
her life - but now she's going to university to become a veterinarian, and
part of the hazing ritual is that she eats raw rabbit kidney, and that
doesn't only give her a rash, it also leaves her craving for ... meat. Now
that wouldn't even be that much of a problem (and I know vegetarians would
disagree and I respect that, but I mean from a purely practical point of
view), but things come to a head when Justine's sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf)
loses her finger, and Justine finds it ... and eats it up. Weirdly enough
though, Alexia catches her doing so but treats it as the most normal
thing. Thing is of course, Alexia is a cannibal, which for some reason is
hereditary, and since the girls have the same parents (Laurent Lucas,
Joana Preiss), Justine just has to be a cannibal as well - not that the
parents haven't done everything to prevent her cannibalism from breaking
out. Justine, being the good girl that she is, does what she can to
prevent becoming a full-blown flesheater, but things come to a head when
she wakes up next to her dead and partially gnawed off roommate and
part-time lover (Rabah Nait Oufella) ... Basically, Grave
is a fun horror flick ... that just takes itself a little bit too
seriously. Bsically, this is a reworking of the (admittedly inferior)
Alyssa Milano cult hit Embrace
of the Vampire, though replacing vampires with cannibals, and
could have thus have been a trashy but fun horror romp - but it just tries
to hard to remain utterly serious and thus loses some of its drive. That
said though, the thing's pretty well directed and the cast is very solid,
so it's a very enjoyable movie - but it still remains behind what it could
have been ...
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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