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  Review by karsten ★★★½ 26

  I was there for the premiere. I watched this with Gaspar Noé in the room. I cannot emphasize how unwatchable the last 20 minutes are. He wanted to clear out the theatre. Jesus fuck, my eyes. Literal paramedics waiting outside the theatre. That’s the review.

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  Review by Jitender ★★★★ 16

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  Review by James Witherspoon ★★★★★ 6

  Had a psychedelic trip to this and began losing consciousness in the theatre. Actually felt like I was in danger. Fucking transcendent. Fucking euphoric.

  FUCK!

  FUCK!!

  LUMIERE. 1AM. WILL NOT BE FORGETTING THIS.

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  Review by Warp ★★★★½ 11

  Noé can’t miss.
  A personal mix of a small cinema essay, a YSL promotion and a short mockumentary where a film set turns to hell. Visually not his best but certainly his most aggressive, the last 20 minutes are an intense spiritual trip. 

  The course of this film is again typical Noé, in which the audiovisual aspect becomes more and more intense and the stress and hectic pace increase. Despite the lack of sex, drugs and harsh violence it knows to create, mostly in the last half hour, that gloomy atmosphere which you can expect from Noé.

  Rewatch value is high due the splitscreen and the fact everyone is talking through each other. There is basically too much to be seen on a first watch. Karl Glusman was also pretty funny, played almost the same asshole as he was in Love. Really loved this mesmerizing trip, the soundtrack is so atmospheric in combination with that hellish ending.

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  Review by Jack ★★★★ 5

  my eyes = in pain
  my anxiety = through the roof

  yup, it’s another Gaspar Noé film!!

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  Review by marcricov ★★★★★ 5

  A blissfully sardonic incantation of cinema that understands the process of artistic development as a self-sacrificial form of religion and exercises that very theory through burgeoning chaos to reach an ultimate state of spiritual purification and/or enlightenment. 

  God damn brilliant.

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  Review by Hibiscus ★★★★★ 5

  Gaspar reached spiritual levels with this one.

  (Seen at Cannes, and I got to thank him afterwards.)

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  Review by Owen ★★★½ 4

  Day for Night if François Truffaut was the antichrist

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  Review by Doug Dillaman ★★★★½ 2

  The opening shot is a literary quotation that praises the joy an epileptic must feel before their fit. That this weird bit of fetishing disabled people is arguably the most offensive thing about Gaspar Noe's latest film is just the first of countless surprises. I would like to leave you to discover them, other than to say the following:

  1) Epileptics, STAY THE FUCK AWAY.
  2) This may be the funniest film I've seen at Cannes.
  3) If cinema is Noe's religion, this is his religious studies textbook.
  4) It's also his excavation of the core dilemma at the heart of cinema: you cannot ignore the legacy of pain and suffering upon which this industry is built, not just Weinstein…

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  Review by Braden ★★★★

  “Either you’ve been a beauty queen, or burned at the stake”
  
  Gaspar Noé’s Lux Æterna barely counts as feature length at about fifty minutes in length but is pure audio-visual mania: head-hurting flashing colours and constant sensory overload in the best way possible that the director does so excellently. It uses far less graphic or disturbing content than his other films (although they are somewhat present), instead focusing on a hellish film shoot pushed to chaotic extremes, becoming literally nauseating and making you cautious of your own health as it descends into unbridled headache material. It’s less of a movie and more of a kind of a spectacle, but if it’s the kind of thing you’re into it’s so fantastic, and I can’t wait for Vortex.
  
  
  Gaspar Noé Ranked
  

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  Review by Kevin Almroth ★★★★★ 17

  The flames of filmmaking passion flickering before your very eyes, burning eternally. I've been blessed in transcendental anxiety.

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  Review by Industria 18

  When in FUCK am I going to get to watch this