Gaspar Noe's Next Film

got to admit I'm actually quite up for Climax, just from reading the synopsis - it sounds pretty fab!

"Climax" is a predictably hallucinogenic batshit indulgence, which is what we've come to expect from Noe. Yet it's better than his last two, for whatever reason, and while it feels vaguely familiar both in terms of style and general ... whatever it is he does, it also reads (at least to me) intentionally or unintentionally as a satire of indulgence, sort of like Bunel's "Exterminating Angel."

Anyone else seen that Mexican what-the-fuck? "We Are The Flesh?" In some ways that one out Noe-d Gaspar at his own game.

The film is worth it for the perfection and intensity of the two choreographed dance routines. I liked (a lot) and disliked (a lot) of the rest of it but the experience was good on the big screen. I'd watch those routines over and over.

OK, this is about as good as he's been since Irreversible, a statement that works whether you loved or loathed Irreversible.

Climax - Not been keen on seeing most of Noe's films (I did really like most of Enter The Void) but I really loved this. It was hard for me not to miss the energy and dancing of the first half but I warmed to the second half eventually. So many great overhead shots.
Really great Arrow edition bonus feature has Alan Jones talking about every music track in the film, I found this very helpful because I know nothing about most of this music. Had no idea Jones was an expert on this stuff.
Quite keen to see Noe's Love now. But really Gaspar Noe, make Step Up 6 next!

I really liked We Are The Flesh too. I hope Minter makes more films.

We are the Flesh was really striking and memorable, totally horrific and sometimes funny. Butt it has stuck with me.

Love, aside from some of the inventively shot sex scenes, is one of the most boring movies I have ever seen. Best I can remember it at least.

Ha, butt.

LOVE is his worst movie by a mile.

The music is the best thing about climax, I lost patience with it in the end. I thought love was supremely dumb but had fun with it but cannot remember a single thing about it. Never saw enter the void and prob won’t, irreversible had a big impact at the time as an ~experience~, thought I stand alone was how you say merde

Love, aside from some of the inventively shot sex scenes

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, May 31, 2019 7:01 PM

This could go a long way for me. Was this the porn film he wanted to make?

Maybe? I thought he had an actual sideline running a porn company. Love is basically a few sex scenes of varying degrees of kink breaking up some seriously long boring conversations delivered unconvincingly by bad actors. So, yeah, I guess a little like porn? It's sooooooooo dull and boring, it makes Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs seem like a zippy sitcom episode.

I've seen The Beast and Detective Dee: Phantom Flame so I'm battle ready for boring.

I watched Climax unfortunately

the two dance routines are very good! I think everyone should watch it until the end of the second one.

I can certainly see why Love could be boring for people, it feels VERY long. Definitely not as boring as The Beast and Detective Dee: Phantom Flame though.

I thought it was too long but the mood mostly worked for me, the music was great and the ending was a total downer. So I liked it more than I disliked it.

Trevor Noah and Mark Kozelek should be proud of their son for starring in this.

Can I just express my annoyance that - inevitably, belatedly - social media kids have apparently made "Love" a meme, so instead of languishing in the depths of Netflix it's been amplified and promoted as one of its most watched titles? Which means that kids are now gravitating toward it like flies on poop, which I find ... troubling. Netflix's rating, fwiw, is TVMA, but that's the same designation given to, say, Ken Burns' "Vietnam" documentary series, so blocking things with that general TVMA rating seems impractical and too broad. There should really be some rating distinction or designation for films with explicit sex in them, to make them specifically easier to block or hide or restrict (as needed) rather than restrict broad collections of titles that are TVMA for less obvious reasons. Right now I think all Netflix will let you do is either restrict everything above a certain rating or block specific titles, one at a time.

Holy shit, they put Love on netflix?

it's been there for years.

Don't call it a comeback.

idk, pretty sure there is some cumming on backs

Wait Love is a teen meme thing now?

Was wondering why the fuck I’ve been seeing it in the Top 10 most streamed list.

what is it about / what are the memes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd5vHr-RJPg
Includes Charlotte Rampling and a lot of models

Little is known about Gaspar Noé’s surprise new film “Vortex,” his seventh film to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, other than the fact that it stars filmmaker Dario Argento, centers on an elderly couple in their last days, and also unfolds entirely in split screen.

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Quite a lot is known about this film once it screened at Cannes and got reviewed everywhere. As usual, P Brad p much gives the entire plot away:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jul/16/vortex-review-gaspar-noe-cannes

I posted my thing because I didn't know anything about it until I read his review in the Guardian after it premiered at Cannes, so ... full circle.

The first half of Climax was great, especially the dance sequences, but the second half was too much

Don’t want to click on that link, but should I go see that film?

I usually find his stuff difficult to take but I have a complementary ticket courtesy of a certain streaming service that expires on Friday.

Françoise Lebrun? I’m intrigued.

I see that Ward Fowler rated it 8/10, slightly higher than what he gave The Worst Person in the World.

Looks like the screen times aren’t going to work for me anyway.

So maybe Petite Maman instead. Better screen times and half the run time.

I’ll see every movie he makes until the second aneurysm hits him

Re: 'difficult to take' - this is emotionally gruelling obv, but not viscerally unpleasant in the way of previous Noe jams. He plainly feels affection for Lebrun and Argento (both of whom are fantastic, and quite brave in submitting to a pitiless camera gaze) and he really captures the way that couples who have been together for a very long time interact with each other - a mixture of familiarity, exasperation and almost bewildered affection.

Good joint interview with Noe/Argento here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/09/gaspar-noe-vortex-interview

Went to see Vortex tonight because my son (who's 17, don't worry) is a big Noe fan — he's even watched Irreversible, which I've never been able to will myself to. Anyway, we both thought it was profound and moving. "Emotionally grueling" is a fair description, but only in the way that, you know, life is. It has some of Noe's fixations — drugs, disconnection — but all in an understated way that serves the story. All three of the primary cast members are very good. The central conceit of the split screen never feels gimmicky, it's a way of showing how two people sharing a life in the same apartment can inhabit different worlds. Really a pretty terrific film.

Wait, this nerd just recut "Irreversible" into chronological order?

Apparently it's a blu-ray special feature on a rerelease that is being released to theaters because sure why not

From last year and not a terribly surprising list but this part is just perfect. It has context but still funny.

The day I turned eighteen, my mother said, “It’s your eighteenth birthday, come with me, I’m, going to take you to see Pasolini’s Sodom. We need to talk about human cruelty.”

https://thequietus.com/articles/31507-gaspar-noe-favourite-films-bakers-dozen