Synopsis
Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten.
The last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.
Vortex
2021 Directed by Gaspar Noé
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Pierre Buffin Hugo Jean Balthazar Sahel Camille Gibrat Aurélien Marquaille Mathieu Barbe Simon Beausoleil
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Wild Bunch CNC Rectangle Productions Les Cinémas de la Zone KNM Artémis Productions SRAB Films Les Films Velvet Kallouche Cinéma Canal+ Ciné+ Shelter Prod Taxshelter. be Tax Shelter du Gouvernement Fédéral Belge
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Edge of the World, Au Bord du Monde, 볼텍스
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still not really sure what to make of this one, which is not a new experience for me with these recent gaspar noé movies. but what i Can say for now is this somehow uses his signature style to make something more intimate than anything he’s done, and it works really well. loaded? sure, i really wish he took more than what seemed like a month to edit this one. but the spontaneity at which this extremely dense movie was put together both heightens the rawness he’s going for and is also just pretty inspiring. if anything it proves the greater effect his aggressive style can have if he decides to take it seriously. idk if “seriously” is the right word but…
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me in 2015: fangirls when one direction announce new music video
me in 2021: fangirls when gaspar noé announces new movie -
FUCK.
This is unlike anything Gaspar has ever made. If you go into it wanting another Climax or Enter the Void, you should temper your expectations.
Essentially, this is Noé’s attempt at winning an Oscar, and I mean that in the best of ways possible. Think Amour by way of Lux AEterna.
Flawless from beginning to end. A masterpiece.
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A movie to watch, then wander home and lie in bed thinking about for a while. So much to say about these two vessels experiencing their own realities, separated by illness, bound together by a home, and a history. Made me sad. But it’s also beautiful.
Calling the split screen a gimmick is just anti-art idk what to say to you.
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it may be a little quieter than his other flicks but make no mistake this is still very much a gaspar noé movie
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At first Noé’s typical cutting rhythms with frames of black between each cut undermined the choreography of the long takes for me — I felt deceived tracking the characters for several minutes in real time and then essentially jump cutting before they had to interact with each other — but as this rhythm continued into the more stationary “long takes” that make up the latter half of the film, I felt more of a groove with it, and more importantly I felt the temporal atmosphere become more abstract, which I suppose is the arc of growing dementia we’re supposed to follow here. In any case, this film made every other split-screen work I’ve seen feel like a trip to the McDonald’s playpen.
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Cannes Film #10 (World Primere, Gaspar Noé, Dario Argento, Asia Argento, and Tilda Swinton attending)
I’ve never been more terrorfyed going into a movie then I did last night. No one knew a thing about the film, It was a Gaspar late night screening at Cannes, some dude punched a security guard in the face 30 minutes before the screening began, and in true fashion, the screening started an hour late.
Both surprising subdued in its provocation and craziness, and just as truly hopeless, cynical, and sad. Gaspar continues with his experimentation with the split screen format used in Lux Aerurna (a film I don’t think will ever be officially released, but in hindsight seemed like a public experiment to…
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Gaspar Noé's most contemplative and personal film. It's about an old couple who have been together for many decades. One random night, the wife wakes up and can't remember where she is. Just like that starts the beginning of the end. The opening text reads "To all those whose brain will decompose before their hearts." I think that better represents the sadness and helplessness of the film more than anything else.
Françoise Lebrun and Dario Argento play the married couple, with their names credited simply as Mother and Father. Lebrun is amazing and it's cool to see her in a more recent art house film since all of the classics she was in during the 70s. Seeing Argento here is…
