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VORTEX

By Gaspar NOÉ

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Drama - Completed 2021


Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2021
Cannes Premiere
San Sebastian FF 2021
Zabaltegi - Tabakalera
Filmfest Hamburg 2021
critics’ choice award
Busan IFF 2021
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Red Sea IFF 2021
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    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • FRANCE
    • Languages
    • FRENCH
    • Duration
    • 135 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Gaspar NOÉ
    • Synopsis
    • Gaspar Noé, director of Irreversible, Enter the Void and Climax, brought a work unique in his filmography to this year's Cannes festival. Vortex is a moving and patient record of the final days in the life of an elderly couple, starring the legend of French cinema Françoise Lebrun and the cult horror film director Dario Argento. This time, Noé applies hard-nosed realism, but he would not be himself if he didn't experiment formally. From the beginning, he splits the screen in two, separately observing the wife’s dementia separating her slowly from reality and her ailing husband, who refuses to acknowledge her condition. The man tries hard to finish writing a book about his beloved movies and dreaming in the cinema. Noé's devices have an extraordinary effect – loneliness, confusion, and inability to come to terms with old age are shown here in an almost stunning way, which puts Vortex on the same shelf as Haneke's Amour or Bergman 's Cries and Whispers.
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