VORTEX: The film that shocked Cannes
Unlike the film "Irreversible" (2002), which made Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel famous and starts from the end, the film "Vortex" by Gaspar Noe is a story about the end, about the end of life with all its difficulties and weight
This work premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival, and the famous Italian director, actor, and producer Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun, and their son Alex Lutz played their roles in the film. Director Gaspar Noé's moving story "Vortex" describes the last days of a couple suffering from dementia.
The man who provokes, Gaspar Noé, shocked Cannes and the audience this time because he did not push them to the limits of endurance and presented them with a touching, poignant, difficult, but also an inevitable drama about what dementia does to the human body, memory, and behavior.
His films like "Irreversible", "Love", "Climax", "Lux Aeterna", and "Enter the Void" would always bring new experiences of the seventh art, which is why he is known as one of the most eccentric filmmakers.
“This is a love story of two old people who experienced the joys of dementia and other diseases” - the famous director jokingly commented on the plot of his new film and added:
“It is a film that will make you cry, so far I have made films about young people who use drugs, where there was a lot of sex. This story is much more personal because my mother was demented.”
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"Almost every person in their forties or fifties faces aging parents. And dementia is something we don't see that often on the big screen. Probably because the producers are afraid that they will lose money if they make a film on a subject that scares everyone" - explains the filmmaker while saying how parts of his own life, when his mother was "losing her mind", are included in the film.
They called Gaspar a hater of women, a homophobe, a provocateur, a genius, but also a feminist. The latter, as he points out, he got from his mother, a social worker who died in his arms a few years ago, with the message that "he should always save women":
“I am glad that the MeToo movement appeared because it was necessary. I was born a man, I enjoy the company of men and women. But when men act too macho, I get a phobia of strong testosterone. I'm glad I never joined the army. The male world does not fascinate me at all” - concludes Gaspar Noe.
Post by: Rinna James
