Gaspar Noé is the kind of mad scientist filmmaker whose very name invites expectations of provocative experimentation. “Vortex,” which clocks in at 142 minutes and spends almost all of them in split ...

Remember how you learned in school about “man’s inhumanity to man”? If the director Gaspar Noé has a theme, it’s “the humanity of inhumanity.” Noé’s shock psychodramas confront subjects like murder, ...

Noé tells the story of Lui (Dario Argento) and his longtime wife, Elle (Françoise Lebrun). They live in their small apartment surrounded by all of the memories that they made together over the years.

Separation anxiety: the son Stéphane (Alex Lutz) tries to comfort his ailing parents (Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun) in 'Vortex'Picturehouse Entertainment When worrying is your default mode and ...

“It would be better if I were dead,” the old lady laments to her even older husband in Gaspar Noé’s startling new film Vortex, and he makes no effort to disagree. Even though its title might have ...

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The director's sixth feature comes on as more restrained than his previous transgressions, but its portrait of old age is still an excuse to rub our noses in devastation. Remember how you learned in ...

When worrying is your default mode and oblivion your near future, dignity is an out-of-reach luxury and survival a harrowing moment-to-moment ordeal. As blunt as ever about human flaws and ...