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 death seem like quite the trip – infinitely preferable to the progressively demeaning ravages of dementia or the Sword of Damocles that is a dodgy ticker.Continue reading ‘Vortex’: Split-Screened And Somber, Gaspar Noé’s Latest Old Age Drama Is A Whole New Form Of Gruelling [Cannes Review] at The Playlist.
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