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Raw

2017
Drama, Horror
1h 39m
In Justine's family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she's a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced to eat raw meat for the first time in her life. Unexpected consequences emerge as her true self begins to emerge. (Cannes2016)

Raw

2017
Drama, Horror
1h 39m
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Rated 17 Sep 2017
60
24th
Ironically, instead of a "raw" experience that cuts under my skin I got a polished display piece that paints a layer of cheap artifice over an underwritten narrative. Uses easy horror effects to cover for a lack of dramatic depth while annoyingly avoiding digging into either. I guess it works if you bring some preconstructed postfeminist allegory to it but after films like "The Falling" or "A Girl Walks Home--" this felt reductive & lacked bite. However it did earn a few good absurdist laughs.
Rated 23 May 2017
60
40th
obviously the requirements for french arthouse have increased, because sex, boobs and pubic hair don't seem to do the trick anymore. now we get a petit vegetarienne gnawing away at a finger, so even the numbest of the numb get to contemplate the bestial nature of man for five seconds, until the next forceful attempt to be shocking comes their way. i sorta missed the "inception-brass" at the big ending reveal. it's all in the genes! DUUUUUUUUH!
Rated 04 Apr 2017
4
70th
The disturbing aspect of Raw isn't its graphic violence, which is likely tamer than you've been led to believe; it's that it frankly makes the case that all of this, in spite of its obvious excesses and drawbacks, is, well, sexy. They don't call them "sexual appetites" for nothing. Fucking French people, I swear.
Rated 13 Apr 2017
5
3rd
Why are we still impressed by a "brave" (if we equate excess with bravery) subject still in 2017? So superficial and polished as an "art-product" which never steps out of the conventions (which today became a mass product for "art-lovers"). They say, "Oh, let's have a story which challenges our carnivore-heterosexual societies and add some coming-of-age in it, every intellectual will buy it." This film has no sense of cinema but only a calculated formula-script. Fake from start to end, hate it.
Rated 31 Mar 2017
88
87th
Monstrous portrait of adolescence as the awakening of bestial appetites. It's about inheritance & the extent to which we can escape our essential nature -- but also about how giving into those drives can create a terrible but liberating sense of authenticity, self-knowledge. It also has something to say about the fragility of identity (vegetarian, gay) & how easily the boundaries we erect to preserve these identities can erode away. Killer soundtrack. "I'm sure you'll find a solution, honey."
Rated 25 Jul 2017
28
28th
Barely legal French girl sleeps in her panties and dreams about nibbling the ambulatory appendages of bi-curious men in this touching coming-of-age romp that transcends approximately two genres: coming-of-age films and cannibalsploitation.
Rated 27 May 2017
50
35th
Had potential but gets silly real quick.
Rated 12 Oct 2017
5
93rd
The central metaphor is so thin that it may actually cease to be a metaphor, but that's fine, because it's the vehicle by which this film drives into unnerving thematic and visual territory. The bestial nature (or nurture?) of man is a familiar conceit, but here it's demonstrated with a sensitive understanding for feminine adolescence which recalls - quite blatantly in one blood-soaked sequence - Carrie. That it so unabashedly equates sex with violence would make even Hitchcock's skin crawl.
Rated 28 Mar 2017
89
93rd
Becoming a woman is the most dangerous experience I can think of.
Rated 05 Oct 2021
79
81st
This was absolutely mad, but I really enjoyed it, even if the premise was a bit much to digest (ahem). There is a lot going on under the surface here, and even if it isn't fully explored or explained it makes for some original and imaginative cinema. Great cast, nicely filmed.
Rated 27 Mar 2018
63
34th
The way bodies work in this film makes no sense, but I feel that's kinda the point. The descent from tasting meat once to going nuts over it takes all of 10 minutes, which seems way too fast, and throws off the film's rhythm. It's a barely thought-out metaphor stretched out across an art film's tone and run time, and it doesn't quite live up to the hilarious premise. A few belly laughs distract you, but can't cover up the lack of connective tissue.
Rated 23 Jan 2018
65
42nd
Great music interrupts scenes of super obnoxious artsy fart French horror schlock. Parents are werewolves there.
Rated 19 Dec 2017
4
55th
as others have said, it's TROUBLE EVERY DAY transposed onto a distaff coming of age crossroads, a cannibal CARRIE where the passage into adulthood is a matter of finding "a solution" to your (bestial) biology. it falls into some student traps indeed, but its key scenes are strong, there's some majestic weirdness in the margins (that dude at the hospital!) and some of these images are indelible in how they occupy uneasy spaces between disgust and desire.
Rated 27 Mar 2017
7
58th
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Rated 18 May 2019
80
63rd
Discomforting and creepy horror film skates to the edge of unpleasantness with some of its gorier digressions, but always manages to snap back with a well-timed ghoulish laugh; it's this combination of comedy and horror that helps it navigate through a surprisingly tame and uninteresting narrative, along with Marillier's intense and frightening performance. Attempts at social commentary ultimately fall a little flat; is the climactic revelation really the 'big revelation' it pertains to be?
Rated 09 Apr 2018
80
73rd
Raw is super engaging for something so weird. I think the weirdness really adds something special to it, though. Not exactly horror, but super disturbing. Not exactly a thriller, but super tense. Not exactly a coming of age film, but it speaks to youth. Hits some interesting points all while being well-shot and discomforting around every corner.
Rated 30 Dec 2017
20
5th
Sure it's uncomfortable watching her scratch the hell out of herself. But it was around the point of the "sister-bonding Brazilian wax" that I pretty much checked out and realized, this is really quite bad. Leaving aside the "eating meat = cannibalism" message -- this thing tries to sell itself as a horror AND a drama. Horror elements I can give you; it's too stupid to be dramatic. "Every cannibal girl needs a gay best friend"; sounds like a bad manga. Solitary nod to Garance for performance.
Rated 05 Nov 2017
70
26th
The rule of thumb is that if you get a decent cast and a good cinematographer, you can film narrative drivel and still have critical acclaim so long as the movie's in French. "Oh so metaphorical! So profound! So sexy!" Really, this is just a rehash of a well-established trope with minimal innovation. It's not bad by any means--well-filmed and well-acted but at the end I can't help but feel I wasted nearly two hours on what's really just some art student's thesis.
Rated 13 Sep 2017
88
97th
A beautifully shot coming of age allegory that is just the right amount of weird and gruesome. Fantastically acted and with gorgous effects. See what I did there? Using words that contain 'gor(e)' and 'gory'. The movie is way better than that pun...
Rated 07 Sep 2017
40
14th
bitch please.. trailer was better.
Rated 19 Aug 2017
2
29th
It looks different and feels different, but the plot really is as stale as can be.
Rated 17 Jul 2017
80
74th
Julia Ducourneau's strikingly original coming-of-age drama hits some strong opening notes with its stylish direction, appealing outsider heroine, and indie ethos. As it progresses, the numerous surprises and twists it delivers throw the story a little too far from the path I was expecting, and this diminishes the impact a little. It's almost too bold for its own good, but still refreshing to see such a creative new voice in French cinema and some great technical skills and acting to boot.
Rated 27 Jun 2017
9
91st
Current movie of the year for me. Grotesque, haunting and grand. It has stayed with me and filled my head with scenes of absolute absurdity that only few in this medium can provide. Raw is wonderland.
Rated 12 Jun 2017
64
36th
Red is the coldest colour. Takes it's time to get into the meaty end of the plot, but 'Raw' starts spinning faster and faster once we get that first taste of whats to come. Lots of skin to drive home the core theme, decent score, falls short of an arthouse classic like 'Dogtooth', as it lacked poise & composition, preferring a more frenzied approach, which thematically makes sense, but leaves the viewing experience somewhat scattered.
Rated 24 May 2017
10
7th
director seems to lack knowledge of how anything works
Rated 23 May 2017
45
12th
Not as gross as you'll think it's going to be going in, which is actually okay with me because I'm not a gore hound. I almost gave this a passing grade but I can't because while I think Marillier is fine in her role, the film feels dishonest; there were times where they just put Justine in contrived situations to further her cannibalistic tendencies. Some of them were cheesy, and the coming-of-age aspects were sub-par. There were good parts scattered throughout, but I felt cold. Fake depth.
Rated 13 Feb 2017
93
88th
What the fuck? Basically a late night skinamax movie about a virgin mousy Freshman and her sexual awakening as guided by her sexy rebellious sister, except instead of sex (though these is a lot of sex) it's cannibalism. I don't know how this was made and how they made it work but god damn this movie is CRAZY
Rated 21 Oct 2016
85
96th
A contemporary arthouse hommage to early Cronenberg. Works for me.
Rated 25 Oct 2022
69
69th
Lmao, the most French zombie film of all time. Smoking, nipples, pubes, sexualised violence, it’s all there baby. An interesting story, with a predictably dumb final reveal. Worth watching for the French arthouse style at least. The gore was a little much for my sensibilities, but by no means excessive. Honestly, I’m surprised that nobody’s cock was bitten off. Only thing the movie is missing tbh
Rated 20 Aug 2018
20
3rd
Is the new trend to praise any horror movie that puts up a lame, underdeveloped excuse for allegory as deep and narratively brilliant? At least this wasn't as ugly as The Babadook. Also cashes in on the recent trend of uber-popular coming of age movies which boil down to 'Being a privileged white teenager is hard. Look at how profound I am. I'm so oppressed. I understand that the struggle is reeeeeel.'
Rated 11 Jan 2018
65
53rd
the meat is bad allegory is lost on me as a disgusting selfish carnivorous prick but hey everything else is good.
Rated 13 Dec 2017
30
10th
Did it really need to be this disgusting?
Rated 22 Nov 2017
60
68th
Well executed although kind of slow movie. Best LGBTAI+ character ever.
Rated 29 Oct 2017
75
64th
A cannibal film for the whole family!
Rated 12 Oct 2017
48
44th
Trouble Every School Day
Rated 20 Aug 2017
75
82nd
What the fuck happened to Julia Ducournau when she was a teenager?!
Rated 21 Jun 2017
80
73rd
And to think I was just considering enrolling in a French veterinary school... Raw is a thoroughly entertaining film exploring a coming of age tale amongst some wonderfully dark imagery.
Rated 14 Jun 2017
75
65th
Forgot to rate this and now I kinda can't remember it.
Rated 12 Jun 2017
60
63rd
okay movie
Rated 31 May 2017
77
77th
Thematically a lot like Trouble Every Day which I finally saw the other week. Sexual cannibalism, but here through the lens of emergent/adolescent sexuality. Very good & feel like a second viewing might increase my rating.
Rated 05 May 2017
75
60th
French Edgextremist Cinema lives on and it lives strong
Rated 12 Apr 2017
70
70th
Super soundtrack, however unlikely it seems that modern French students are listening to Blood Red Shoes and The Long Blondes. The gore factor has surely been exaggerated: it's certainly less wince-inducing than, say, Only God Forgives.
Rated 28 Mar 2017
80
89th
Raw is a bloody, often disgusting, and always fascinating look at both the life of a college student who finally gets to enjoy the freedom that comes with adulthood ... and also what happens if that same college student subsequently gets a desire for human flesh. It's an intriguing movie with a strong plot, great acting, just enough gross-out horror, and lots of symbolism and metaphor to ensure that we're not watching it brain-dead. Raw is great.
Rated 24 Nov 2024
72
56th
The opening hazing rituals made me think this was going to be a horror film of some sort. And, I mean, I guess it is. Tone shifts, though, and it becomes more of a dramatic horror or psychological drama. Still creepy to watch.
Rated 07 Nov 2024
20
12th
Charlie. Charlie bit my finger. Really bad. Shut off halfway saying "Never watching this again".
Rated 02 Jun 2024
70
68th
Great mix of a movie about discovering one's identity, mushed in a vampire spaghetti.
Rated 19 Feb 2024
80
87th
Somehow the shock factor comes across differently in the French Extremity films which have drawn comparisons from some viewers, and I feel that here the violence is actually less gratuitous. If there is a point to all this, it may have gone over my head unless it's as simple as 'meat is murder' (in which case, cool story). Am I calling this textually shallow? Perhaps, but the notion that art must justify itself/its excesses is a fallacy. This works for me.
Rated 11 Oct 2023
72
47th
audiovisual 76 acting 70 overall feeling 70 avg 72
Rated 23 Sep 2023
90
71st
I really liked it, and I don't even know why
Rated 10 Sep 2023
30
5th
some kind of teenager style movie, no logic, no clue, just some taboos being shown, at least it could show us more!
Rated 13 Jul 2022
70
48th
Weirdly a better and more visceral movie when its dealing with the assaultive peer pressures and lack of control despite the promise of freedom of college life and the ilk, don't think me a psycho but the actual cannibalism stuff felt way too tame and spread out for me with no real payoff. Maybe the familial angle just wasn't my cup, there's no opportunity to really let loose the consequences here, which kinda weakens the impact from Justine's own experience to me. Needed to sink lower.
Rated 11 Apr 2022
77
82nd
This film occupies a very weird space in my head. It's too absurd to work as a thriller; and the metaphor too ill-fitting to work as a coming-of-age genre piece (like It Follows). But it comes together somehow and the whole thing works. And it certainly helps that the body horror is truly off-putting in a way that few films can manage (more is not always more!).
Rated 25 Mar 2022
90
94th
Beautiful coming of age story. Loved the tension it created as her urges overwhelm. It also does a great job of not becoming focused and relying on its sort of gimmick… A-
Rated 24 Feb 2022
78
83rd
I must admit that it's not my type of movie (some scenes made me uneasy) but it was a great watch.
Rated 16 Feb 2022
55
25th
A huge range of topics are introduced, but not developed: being part of a group in college, get to know who you are, the discovery of sex, maintaining your values when you are free from your parents and miles away, if “family destiny” can be avoided or if it is a curse… But that’s all, she only suggests, she doesn’t dive on them. Good atmosphere and acting overall but the script couldn't really get me.
Rated 06 Dec 2021
66
27th
Not quite as gory or disturbing as I thought, which just makes it a ho-hum middle of the road "arthouse" horror film. It's serviceable in how it shows this lady going from vegetarianism to cannibalism, with some help from college hazing, but the film still doesn't do much exciting or allegorical with this premise. I'm trying to remember how it ended, but I honestly can't. QUICK UPDATE: Oh, that's right ... heh.
Rated 30 Oct 2021
69
50th
It’s a little much for me
Rated 22 Oct 2021
84
75th
Raw estreava há 5 anos no Festival de Chicago. Talvez não tenha sido a melhor escolha ver um filme sobre veterinários canibais na noite me que meu gato Tuxedo está internado numa clínica veterinária e talvez por isso mesmo eu tenha gostado mais de Titane. De qualquer forma é um coming-of-age sobre o despertar da sexualidade do caralho. BlurayRip VXT.
Rated 17 Oct 2021
4
51st
Impossible for me to divorce this from the far superior Trouble Every Day. Still, it works on its own though with some of the grossest scenes you’ll see from a movie that isn’t some straight to DVD thing. It wants to portray the cannibalistic scenes as almost sexual and that’s where it loses me in comparison to TED. I don’t think she quite knows how to shoot the human body that way like the master Denis. An interesting enough debut
Rated 18 Sep 2021
65
62nd
This is one of the weirdest movies you will ever watch. There is no actual explanation to the events, or what drives her strange appetites. The events are surreal and it has some decent gore. I was intrigued to see where the story might take us, but instead they painted a weird picture and then basically walked away from it. Not particularly worthwhile, but it was moderately entertained to follow this cute girl around for a while.
Rated 06 Aug 2021
70
45th
I'm gonna puke!!! ??????????/????????????????????
Rated 02 Aug 2021
60
51st
ne hissedeceğimi bilemiyorum, ne oy vereceğimi de
Rated 30 May 2021
60
40th
Technically it is good, the acting is great. But for one, I could not get into the uni life as someone who went to uni in the UK. Just made zero sense to me and it took me out a little bit. But the main problem for me was the subject matter. Just not for me, which made a difficult watch.
Rated 14 Oct 2020
65
80th
"Raw" is a great adjective for this movie. The technicals are outstanding across the board, and there are some tremendous, lasting images that will be seared in my brain forever. But something gives me pause about heaping too much praise upon it. Maybe it is the sheer depravity of it all, not just the obvious, but the depiction of a debauched, shameless college world as well. The rewatchability factor is lacking, due to the uncomfortable ride.
Rated 03 Aug 2020
88
87th
There's such a sense of -- for lack of a better term -- comic timing to 'Raw' that I'm very surprised by the reviews calling it pretentious or detached. There are obvious riffs on a certain kind of horror new wave à la Aster, Refn, etc. (and, more passingly, on French Extremity), but the overwhelming impression is that of a dark, satirical comedy in the manner of 'Man Bites Dog', which maybe didn't translate well for international audiences.
Rated 01 Jun 2020
5
18th
Not really my genre but an interesting coming of age horror.
Rated 09 May 2020
1
0th
Vejeteryan, veterinerlik, öğrenci, et yemek, yamyamlık, eşcinsellik,müstehcen, akran baskısı SPOILER ilgi çekici başladı ama saçmaladı. Vejeteryan kız et yedikten sonra insan eti yemeye başlıyor. APTALCA
Rated 20 Apr 2020
60
12th
w/ Gaye
Rated 30 Mar 2020
71
57th
70.5
Rated 26 Jan 2020
80
64th
The more you try to think of the cannibalism in the film as an allegory the more you realize it isn't necessarily meant as an allegory but a story of someone who happens to be a cannibal.
Rated 03 Aug 2019
80
68th
Laurent Lucas and Joaquin Phoenix are the same people.
Rated 14 Jul 2019
45
12th
Raw has the slow pacing and general unpleasantness of an art movie, and the all-enveloping urge to disgust and pulsating soundtrack of an exploitation flick. That said, I felt it lacks both the substance of an art movie, and the fun of an exploitation flick. I really wanted to have fun with Raw and dive into its themes, but I was left with a movie that wants to be edgy (what even is that song during the mirror scene?), that wants to gross me out, and that insists on not being any fun whatsoever.
Rated 13 May 2019
64
74th
Pretty interesting premisse and overal ambience, but goes nowhere.
Rated 04 May 2019
8
65th
Body horror is an unfortunately neglected sub-genre, there hasn't really been any mainstream films of this nature since 90's Cronenberg. I could easily see the plot of this film in a Junji Ito or Suehiro Maruo manga, if they aren't already. Although I'd probably rather read those mangas than watch this again. The film was decent.
Rated 06 Apr 2019
50
25th
Nothing good in this film other than the party scene that was shot rivetingly, room to room. That was cool.
Rated 03 Feb 2019
85
87th
I didn't think I'd be this squeamish!
Rated 02 Feb 2019
92
56th
Bloody great French horror.
Rated 01 Jan 2019
60
71st
The people as animals bits are silly and the end is weak but mostly a very funny and disturbing horror.
Rated 06 Dec 2018
80
83rd
Heerlijk vreemd en tense, toppertje
Rated 29 Aug 2018
85
70th
I'm hungry.
Rated 25 Jul 2018
0
0th
Deranged, disgusting, offensive.
Rated 29 Apr 2018
84
84th
Constantly engrossing and intriguing, I couldn't look away
Rated 04 Apr 2018
6
31st
some of the coolest visuals/imagery I've seen recently, but the story/theme was just so goofy, I couldn't get into it. interested to see what this director does in the future though.
Rated 25 Mar 2018
61
35th
Bana ne izlettiniz amk. Sabah 5 te yatmadan önce izlemeyiniz.
Rated 03 Mar 2018
85
48th
A really disgusting but cool movie. I loved the concept and how it was executed.
Rated 05 Feb 2018
72
35th
This movie really "went for it". Found the pacing to be lacking and the general acting to be "meh". Interesting concept, though.
Rated 12 Jan 2018
75
91st
Ugly fun? The most affecting part of this is the ugliness of French university life as presented. However, if the movie was meant to be generally ugly, it doesn't go far enough elsewhere; and if it was meant to be fun and schlocky, the genuine ugliness undermines that intent. It's worth a watch, but be prepared to feel ambivalently about it.
Rated 11 Jan 2018
70
54th
Rvw. why she got diamond cutters but no working fridge lmao. Did she ever get it off her pussy though
Rated 05 Jan 2018
92
96th
Surprising, interesting, funny and disturbing. Just simply a great film.
Rated 13 Dec 2017
45
10th
Couldn't do it.
Rated 07 Dec 2017
80
77th
bu filmi neden yeterince sevemedigimi dusununce hikayede karakterin bir ozelligi yok sadece ait oldugu sinifa uyanisi gibi. ne biliyim heripotersin ve buyuculuk ogreniyorsun falan filan
Rated 30 Nov 2017
70
58th
wow this was fun
Rated 17 Nov 2017
5
91st
i'm not usually very squeamish but this one got me pretty good in a few spots
Rated 08 Nov 2017
80
80th
A twisted coming of age story, this film offers a visceral experience for those who buy into the central premise and are willing to run with it. What's constant throughout the film is it's intensity - which makes it a very compelling experience, as does the strong central performance, effective score and assured direction. Raw may not be for everyone, but it certainly stands out from the crowd.
Rated 31 Oct 2017
60
72nd
Well executed although kind of slow movie. Best LGBTAI+ character ever.
Rated 28 Oct 2017
78
66th
Truly disturbing.
Rated 23 Oct 2017
92
76th
Gross, outrageous and engaging. This film is also beautifully shot, and the young cast is great.
Rated 22 Oct 2017
78
77th
Was expecting a gorefest, and it's there, but I love the attitude it takes to it - it doesn't really look exploitative. Everything's weird when you're 16 and thrust into unfamiliar territory, and eating human flesh is just one of those things. The movie just... goes there, and I laugh more than I cringe.
Rated 14 Oct 2017
73
71st
A fine film with some engagingly grotesque body horror that thinly veils a coming-of-age story. It's entertaining though and feels like a relatively fresh (although not quite raw) take on this genre.
Rated 14 Oct 2017
55
15th
I think I got some of it. I probably didn't get all of it, but I know I didn't care for it. I did not go into this movie expecting it to be so packed with subtext. Maybe if I was prepared I would have seen it with a different mindset. There were some disturbing and unforgettable moments.

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