Gaspar Noe's Next Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd5vHr-RJPg
Includes Charlotte Rampling and a lot of models

Little is known about Gaspar Noé’s surprise new film “Vortex,” his seventh film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, other than the fact that it stars filmmaker Dario Argento, centers on an elderly couple in their last days, and also unfolds entirely in split screen.

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Quite a lot is known about this film once it screened at Cannes and got reviewed everywhere. As usual, P Brad p much gives the entire plot away:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/16/vortex-review-gaspar-noe-cannes

I posted my thing because I didn't know anything about it until I read his review in the Guardian after it premiered at Cannes, so ... full circle.

The first half of Climax was great, especially the dance sequences, but the second half was too much

Don’t want to click on that link, but should I go see that film?

I usually find his stuff difficult to take but I have a complementary ticket courtesy of a certain streaming service that expires on Friday.

Françoise Lebrun? I’m intrigued.

I see that Ward Fowler rated it 8/10, slightly higher than what he gave The Worst Person in the World.

Looks like the screen times aren’t going to work for me anyway.

So maybe Petite Maman instead. Better screen times and half the run time.

I’ll see every movie he makes until the second aneurysm hits him

Re: 'difficult to take' - this is emotionally gruelling obv, but not viscerally unpleasant in the way of previous Noe jams. He plainly feels affection for Lebrun and Argento (both of whom are fantastic, and quite brave in submitting to a pitiless camera gaze) and he really captures the way that couples who have been together for a very long time interact with each other - a mixture of familiarity, exasperation and almost bewildered affection.

Good joint interview with Noe/Argento here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/09/gaspar-noe-vortex-interview

Went to see Vortex tonight because my son (who's 17, don't worry) is a big Noe fan — he's even watched Irreversible, which I've never been able to will myself to. Anyway, we both thought it was profound and moving. "Emotionally grueling" is a fair description, but only in the way that, you know, life is. It has some of Noe's fixations — drugs, disconnection — but all in an understated way that serves the story. All three of the primary cast members are very good. The central conceit of the split screen never feels gimmicky, it's a way of showing how two people sharing a life in the same apartment can inhabit different worlds. Really a pretty terrific film.

Wait, this nerd just recut "Irreversible" into chronological order?

Apparently it's a blu-ray special feature on a rerelease that is being released to theaters because sure why not

From last year and not a terribly surprising list but this part is just perfect. It has context but still funny.

The day I turned eighteen, my mother said, “It’s your eighteenth birthday, come with me, I’m, going to take you to see Pasolini’s Sodom. We need to talk about human cruelty.”

https://thequietus.com/articles/31507-gaspar-noe-favourite-films-bakers-dozen