Where to begin with Raw? One of the most original horror movies of recent years, it plays like a season of some heady, hallucinatory TV series packed--but not cramped--into 99 minutes. Ostensibly a coming-of-age story, it’s far more than any summary or its trailer could convey, but here’s a try anyway: Justine, the youngest daughter in a family of veterinarians, who are also vegetarians, discovers that school and the larger world outside of it aren’t what she thought when she’s forced to eat raw meat as part of a school hazing ritual.
If the trailer does one thing right, it’s finding a way to reduce the movie’s sensual, decadent, and sprawling journey into a simple binary where eating meat turns you into a cannibal, so don’t trust it. Whatever Raw is supposed to mean, it’s not as easy to pin down as that; and as cliche as it may be to say, this is the rare sort of movie that makes plenty of sense on a narrative and emotional level, but whose lasting appeal is mainly in puzzling out what the hell it’s trying to say.
To say much more would undermine the experience of watching Raw unfold with the same inventive, inscrutable inspiration as Donnie Darko and May. Watch it.
-Brian L.
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