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Raw – Wednesday Night at the Cinematheque
October 31, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Raw
(d Julia Ducournau 2016, France/Belgium) 99 min.
It might be an urban legend, but the story goes that during a screening at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival some audience members allegedly fainted due to the horror film’s graphic scenes. Maybe, maybe not, but the 91% approval rating by Rotten Tomatoes warns of the film’s lurid violence and sexuality along with its deep, beautifully realized, symbolically rich meditation on primal hungers of all kinds.A lifelong vegetarian veterinary student discovers after a hazing ritual that she has an insatiable craving for meat—and soon not just any kind of meat. Raw was screened during the International Critics’ Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival where it won the critics’ prize.