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Vortex

Gaspar Noé
2021 142 min France
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Synopsis

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.

Cast/Avec

  • Françoise Lebrun
  • Alex Lutz
  • Dario Argento

Screenplay

  • Gaspar Noé

Cinematographer

  • Benoît Debie

Sound

  • Ken Yasumoto

Production

  • RECTANGLE PRODUCTIONS
  • WILD BUNCH INTERNATIONAL

Screenings

Tuesday 05 March 2024 16:00
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : French
Subtitles : Dutch
Screening : Public Screening

Critics

“Gaspar Noé’s tale of old age and dementia is yet another imaginative, memorable and disturbing masterwork.”
MANSEL STIMPSON Film review 29/04/2023

Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Noé
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).

Filmography

  • Pulpe amère (short) 1987
  • Une expérience d'hypnose télévisuelle (short) 1995
  • Carne (mid-length) 1991
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