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A child named Alexia pesters her father while he is driving. She unfastens her seatbelt, he glances back to scold her, and the car crashes. Her skull is hurt, and surgeons fit a titanium plate into it. Once out of the hospital, Alexia turns from her parents and throws herself on their car. Years on, as an adult with a big scar down one side of her head, she dances in motor show displays. After a show one night, an admirer trails her out to the parking lot, tells her he loves her and kisses her by force. She kills him with the long metal pin she wears in her hair. Back in the showroom to wash, she finds the custom Cadillac she had posed against has switched itself on. She climbs in and has sex with the car.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Titane (2021)
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- Spike Lee, president of the 2021 Cannes jury, was told in French to announce the "first prize" but understood it as "first place", so he revealed Titane's Palme d'Or win before the ceremony had ended.
- Julia Ducournau became the second female director to win the Palme d'Or, after Jane Campion for The Piano in 1993, and the first to win it solo, since Campion shared her prize with Chen Kaige for Farewell My Concubine.
