Eskil Vogt is best known for his writing work with director Joachim Trier, with the pair most recently being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Worst Person in the World. But on the evidence of his second feature film as director, following up from 2014’s Blind, Vogt most definitely has as much skill behind the camera as he does with a pen and paper. The Innocents is a curious beast; it is a psychological horror…
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Vortex 2021
The notion of mortality clearly lies heavy within Gaspar Noé’s mind; after the experimental writer-director suffered a near fatal brain haemorrhage in 2020, his next film, Vortex, perhaps unsurprisingly turns to these grim, existentialist reflections on the heavy blanket of death that hangs over all of humanity. Vortex follows an elderly couple – one of whom is living with dementia, the other who has heart complications – and is told in split-screen format, with blinking-style editing and a constricted screen…
