Raw
On its surface, Raw is a 2016 film about a lifelong vegetarian who tastes meat for the first time in veterinary school and finds herself developing a cannibalistic hunger for human flesh. While that premise is more than enough to unnerve or disgust most audiences, the disturbing elements of this French-Belgian production extend beyond its most obvious shocks. The A.V. Club called it a “beautifully realized, symbolically rich, and disturbingly [sensual] meditation on primal hunger of all kinds.”
In fact, ambulances were called to a midnight screening of the film at the Toronto International Film Festival when several moviegoers passed out from Raw‘s intense action.
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