A tough yet gentle drama about love and life as it comes to an end.
The last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia. Using an unusual minimalist set-up and an unsettling slowness, Gaspar Noé films the tragedy of old age with shocking sobriety.
Largely improvised, the film captures the degeneration of a couple caught between loneliness, fear, pettiness, the desolation of living and the desperate anticipation of death.
“Gaspar Noé’s tale of old age and dementia is yet another imaginative, memorable and disturbing masterwork.”
Mansel Stimpson Film Review 29/04/2023
Festival de Cannes 2021, 2021, af
Best Film, San Sebastian FF 2021, 2021, es
Busan IFF 2021, 2021, af
Best Film critics’ choice award, Filmfest Hamburg 2021, 2021, de
Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé (1963, Argentina) is a director, producer, editor and screenwriter. He studied philosophy and film at the Ecole Louis Lumière in Paris. The visionary, inventive and provocative filmmaker directed number of short films, documentaries and six features, all presented at the Cannes Film Festival; I stand alone (1998), Irreversible (2002), Enter the Void (2009), Love (2015), Climax (2018) and Vortex (2021).