Synopsis
Everyone in Justine’s family is a vet. And a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a brilliant and promising student. When she starts at veterinary school, she enters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. During the first week of hazing rituals, desperate to fit in whatever the cost, she strays from her family principles when she eats raw meat for the first time. Justine will soon face the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions when her true self begins to emerge…
Press review
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"Suspiria" meets "Ginger Snaps" in a muscular yet elegant campus cannibal horror from bright new talent Julia Ducournau.
Variety — 14 May 2016
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Cannibalism – it shouldn’t happen to a vet. Rawproves a bang-on title for the previously-namedGrave, the inventively grisly (or gristly) genre debut by French up-and-comer Julia Ducornau. That’s because fresh meat, of various kinds, is at the centre of this femme-horror cannibal coming-of-ager. But it’s also apt due to the young heroine’s own affecting gaucheness and the authentic red-blooded freshness of this stylistically rich, super-macabre piece from a French director who made her mark with the 2011 short Junior.
Screendaily — 14 May 2016
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The French-Belgian debut from Julia Ducournau is a surreal, deliriously twisted coming-of-age story that suggests "Heathers" by way of "Dogtooth."
Indie Wire — 20 May 2016
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Everyone but vegetarians will feast their eyes on Raw (Grave), a cleverly written, impressive made and incredibly gory tale of one young woman's awakening to the pleasures of the flesh — in all senses of the term.
Hollywood Reporter — 14 May 2016
- Director Julia Ducournau
- With Garance Marillier
- Ella Rumpf
- Rabah Naït Oufella
- Joana Preiss
- Laurent Lucas
- Bouli Lanners
- Marion Vernoux
- Storyline Julia Ducournau
- Production director Thomas Jaubert
- 1st Assistant Director Dimitri Linder
- Script Bénedicte Kermadec
- Director of Photography Ruben Impens
- Operator assistant Benjamin Hautenauve
- Sound Engineer Mathieu Descamps
- Sound assistant Nicolas Mas
- Chief Electrician Nicolas Lagae
- Electrician Pieter de Ridder
- Chief Machinist Hatuey Suarez
- Machinist Amandine Soares
- Chief builder Dorphy Smygol
- Construction worker Boris de Vuyst
- Construction worker Tom de Vuyst
- Chief Editor Jean-Christophe Bouzy
- Assistant Editor Joa Neves
- Sound Editor Séverin Favriau
- Mixing Stéphane Thiebaut
- Stage Manager Aurore Benoit
- Chief decorator Laurie Colson
- 1st assistant decorator Ingrid de Ribaucourt
- Chief Costume Designer Elise Ancion
- Makeup Artist Laura Ozier
- Production Rouge international
- Production Petit Film
- Coproduction Frakas Productions (Belgium)
- France Distributor (Theatrical Release) Wild Bunch Distribution
- Export / International sales Wild Bunch