Tag: Enter The Void
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Sundance 2024: Presence, A Real Pain
An experiment in shooting a movie entirely from a first-person Pov, Steven Soderbergh’s Presence has conceptual precedents but no meaningful ones in terms of the camera’s weight and the operator’s resulting physical relationship to it. 1947’s Lady in the Lake tried nonstop subjectivity with a bulky 35mm camera; 2009’s Enter the Void eliminated the embodied…
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‘My Tender Matador’ Co-Producer Zapik Films Boards Bolivian Political Thriller ‘Family’ (Exclusive)
Chile’s Zapik Films, co-producer of “My Tender Matador” starring Alfredo Castro, has boarded the Bolivian political thriller “Family” (“Familia”) by Marcelo Landaeta, which participates in Sanfic Industria’s Santiago Fiction Lab.Landaeta describes his debut feature as a thriller set in the late ‘70s when Bolivia is in the grip of a military dictatorship.“It is precisely in…
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Gaspar Noé Almost Died, Got Sober, and Made His Most Personal Film
On the same day that Gaspar Noé premiered his new movie “Vortex” at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, he posted an alarming image on Instagram. Captioned “Brain hemorrhage – Day 11,” the photo showed the 57-year-old Argentine director in a hospital gown and attached to a ventilator. Fans and friends flooded the comments section to…
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‘Vortex’: Split-Screened And Somber, Gaspar Noé’s Latest Old Age Drama Is A Whole New Form Of Gruelling [Cannes Review]
Note to self: do not get old. The alternative, i.e., death, may not be very pleasant but, sedate and dignified and swathed in vaguely biblical white sheets, it doesn’t get anything like the bad press that old age does in Gaspar Noé‘s “Vortex.” Let’s not forget that in “Enter the Void,” this same director made…
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‘Vortex’ Review: Gaspar Noé’s Split-Screen Drama Is a Surprisingly Grounded Variation on ‘Amour’
Gaspar Noé is the kind of mad scientist filmmaker whose very name invites expectations of provocative experimentation. “Vortex,” which closes in at 142 minutes and spends almost all of them in split screen, would appear to be consistent with that trend. Yet this quiet, slow-burn look at an elderly couple suffering from dementia and other…
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Gaspar Noe’s Psychedelic Mockumentary ‘Lux Æterna’ Might Give You Seizures — Cannes Review
Ever since Gaspar Noé cranked up his ambition with “Enter the Void” 10 years ago, the filmmaker has divided audiences with unruly, disorienting filmmaking techniques. Frames blink in and out, cameras float and speed through unexpected spaces, and neon palettes pulsate. His recent spate of movies often yield overwhelming experiences closer to the visceral terrain…
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Climax review – bad trip at the danse macabre
A troupe of young dancers is sucked into an LSD-induced hell in Gaspar Noé’s latest grand guignol vision“It’s a nightmare!” Gaspar Noé’s latest is a typically confrontational cocktail of music and horror; a trance-like stew of contorting, krumping, waacking weirdness that drops on its audience like the bucket of blood from Carrie. It’s purportedly based…
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Gaspar Noé Returns: New Film ‘Psyché’ Is Described As A Drug-Induced ‘Plunge Into Hell’
Gaspar Noé, the infamous cinema provocateur behind films like “Irreversible” and “Enter the Void,” is readying his return to the big screen. Government funding group Tax Shelter Belgium (via The Playlist) has revealed the first details about Noé’s next project, his fifth feature, which will be titled “Psyché.” The film will find the director going…
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Gaspar Noé’s Next Film Is ‘Psyché,’ New Details Emerge
There are few provocateurs in modern cinema quite like Gaspar Noé. The filmmaker stunned audiences with the intense rape drama “Irreversible,” tried to give them seizures with “Enter The Void,” and pushed himself to the edges of pornography with “Love.” Now, the director is setting up his next picture and is staying decidedly #OnBrand.Details of…