The audience experiences Justine's journey into vet school and her assimilation (or lack thereof) into this new society. Raw follows Justine's coming-of-age throughout the film.
He then opens his shirt, revealing scars and missing chunks of his chest, and tells Justine that she will find a solution. Her father says he finally realized when they kissed the first time, indicating a scar on his lip. He explains that when he first met their mother, he could not understand why she did not want to be with him. There, Justine's father tells her that what happened is neither hers nor Alexia's fault. Justine is initially furious that Alexia killed Adrien but then cleans Alexia and herself up in the shower.Īlexia is imprisoned for the murder of Adrien, and Justine is sent back home. Justine then sees a bloody Alexia slumped on the floor. She pulls off the blankets, finding Adrien dead with most of his right leg eaten and a stab wound in his back. The next morning, Justine wakes up in bed with Adrien but she notices she is covered in blood. Justine helps Alexia up, and they walk each other back to their dorms. Justine confronts Alexia and fights her, eventually biting each other until they are pulled apart by other students. Adrien shows her a video where Justine is crawling on all fours, attempting to take a bite out of the arm of a corpse as Alexia eggs her on, to boos and cheers from a crowd of watching party guests. The next day, everyone in school stares at Justine, some avoiding her. Justine confides in Adrien and they end up having sex, during which Justine tries to bite Adrien but instead bites her own arm until it bleeds profusely, seeming to orgasm while doing so.Īt another party, Justine gets extremely intoxicated and Alexia takes her to the morgue. Justine goes back to her dorm and takes a shower, where she picks a chunk of his lip out of her teeth and eats it. While kissing, Justine bites the middle of his bottom lip off, leaving the other party guests shocked and disgusted. That night, she arrives at a party, where paint is thrown at her as part of another hazing ritual and she is forced to make out with someone. Despite this, Justine's craving for human meat grows and she starts lusting after Adrien. Alexia starts eating one of the passengers so that her sister would "learn" instead, Justine is dismayed. The next morning, Alexia takes Justine to a deserted road, where Alexia jumps in front of a car, causing the two people in it to crash into a tree. Alexia wakes up to find Justine doing this but later tells their parents that her dog, Quicky, ate it. Alexia faints, and Justine picks up the finger, tastes the blood, and starts eating it. That night, Alexia attempts to give her a bikini wax, but when Alexia tries to cut the wax off with sharp scissors, Justine kicks her away and Alexia accidentally cuts off her own finger. Unsatisfied, she eats raw chicken in the morning, and later throws up a long bundle of her own hair she had been chewing on. She and Adrien take a late-night trip to a gas station so no one will see her eating meat. The next day, Justine begins having cravings for meat, which makes her feel ashamed. She goes to the doctor, who diagnoses her with food poisoning and gives her cream for the rash. Justine leaves with Adrien and later discovers an itchy rash all over her body. Justine refuses because of her vegetarianism, but Alexia forces her to eat one. The next morning, the new class is splattered with blood and is forced to eat raw rabbit kidneys.
They are brought to a party, where Alexia shows Justine old class photos of students bathed in blood, including one with their parents. On her first night, she meets her roommate Adrien, and they are forced to partake in a week-long hazing ritual, welcoming the new students. Lifelong vegetarian Justine begins her first semester at veterinary school, the same one her older sister Alexia is attending and where their parents met. The film received critical acclaim, with praise for Ducournau's direction and screenplay, though was met with some controversy for its graphic content. The film premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival on and was theatrically released in the United States on 10 March 2017 by Focus World, and in France on 15 March 2017 by Wild Bunch. The plot follows a young vegetarian's first year at veterinary school, where she tastes meat for the first time and develops a craving for flesh. Raw ( French: Grave) is a 2016 French-Belgian coming-of-age horror drama film written and directed by Julia Ducournau, and starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, and Rabah Nait Oufella.
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