Titane ending explained · Cinespective

What happens

Alexia dies giving birth, after Vincent, who has known her secret and stayed, helps her through labour. The baby has a titanium spine, a child of metal and flesh. Vincent holds it, so he becomes a father again.

The last image

Vincent holds the newborn child, whose spine is made of titanium.

What it says

The film's question was who will recognise and hold you as you are becoming. Vincent answers it, loving what is strange and unfinished. Alexia's death passes her body's fusion of flesh and metal to the child, and a grieving man gets a child to care for.