The filmmaker uses two icons of cinema and a clever central gimmick to deliver an affecting look at mortality. Gaspar Noé is the kind of mad scientist filmmaker whose very name invites expectations of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The film opens with the husband and wife – all characters remain unnamed – sitting on the patio of their Paris home, as the husband recites that old gem of Edgar Allan Poe's: "Is all that we see or ...

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.

Resignation to fate is the dominant affect of Gaspar Noé’s Vortex. Other films about the onset and advancement of dementia have rarely been as steadfastly bleak or as full of futile despair as this ...

“The bonfire scene will look beautiful. Have you ever burned at the stake?” It is perhaps an odd question to ask someone. But that’s how Lux Æterna begins. A split screen shows Béatrice Dalle and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A world apart from the dazzling psychedelic rides of “Climax” and “Enter the Void,” Noé’s latest doesn’t always justify the ...

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, ...