Titane

Julia Ducournau's Titane won the Palme d'Or at Cannes — only the second horror film ever to do so. Agathe Rousselle stars as a serial killer with a titanium plate in her skull who becomes pregnant by a car, then disguises herself as a missing boy and moves in with his grieving father (Vincent Lindon). That synopsis sounds insane, and the film is insane, but Ducournau directs with such emotional conviction that it becomes a genuinely moving story about identity, transformation, and unconditional love. The body horror is extreme, the gender fluidity is radical, and the tenderness between Rousselle and Lindon in the final act is devastating.