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 principals when she eats raw meat for the first time.
Justine will soon face the terrible and unexpected consequences of her actions as her true self begins to emerge...
Before Raw...
"There was Mange, a 90-minute television movie made for Canal Plus, and Junior, a short (21min). Each of my films has been about physical transformation. Mange was very punk, with lots of sex and drugs...it was rated 16+ on Canal.
It's about a once-obese girl who runs into the person who made her school life hell and seeks revenge. In Junior, it's the reptilian mutation of a teenage tomboy into a young woman. Raw follows in the same path as my short. Both lead characters have the same name - Justine - and both are played by Garance Marillier.