Vortex (2021)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 142 minuten
Country:
France / Belgium / Monaco
Directed by: Gaspar Noé
Stars: Dario Argento, Françoise Lebrun and Alex Lutz
IMDb score:
7,4 (10.196)
Releasedate: 27 January 2022
Vortex plot
"Life is a short party that will soon be forgotten."
An elderly married couple lives in an apartment in Paris. Wife and husband have a son and still love each other. However, she suffers from dementia, a disease that also has a major impact on him and which he has to cope with. This is the account of their last days of life.
Actors and actresses
Lui
Elle
Stéphane
L'épicier
Claire
La junkie
Kiki
Ami de la rédaction
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Reviews & comments
Fisico (moderator films)
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- 9982 messages
- 5393 votes
It has to be Noé's most serene, most understated film. Following Haneke's Amour (Film, 2012), some parallels can indeed be drawn. First and foremost, the loneliness and isolation of an elderly couple in their apartment. Each bears the fate and suffering of the other. Partly out of love, although love has long since ceased to be called amorous, rather care or perhaps better “watching”, is a necessity, because that is how it should be…
The split screen was a great idea. Daring and daring, but effective and symbolic in which the couple is literally cut off from her partner, from the environment, due to the decay of the lady. The distance is created visually. One is close, but at the same time far…
Although the film had some excellent scenes, especially towards the end or the attempt at an in-depth conversation between father and son (with the demented mother next door), I found the film quite monotonous at times with its long observational shots. It sometimes rippled a little further, at the pace of the residents. At the same time, it gave me time to snoop around in the messy room myself. There was a lot of beautiful stuff hanging on the wall (Une femme est une femme, Metropolis, Dr Mabuse, …) and there were also interesting books in the seats or on the table (Jean Renoir), I also saw Stalker lying there somewhere as a DVD cover .
s0062423
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- 682 messages
- 1739 votes
Since Enter the Void dropped out a bit from Noé, but this trailer stuck just a little too hard and I had to see it on the big screen.
This would be Noé's most understated, most personal, most emotional film. And yes, the film is disturbing, with a theme like dementia it could hardly be otherwise. Some scenes cut very deep and the film is a sledgehammer.
But Noé really has a unique gift, which comes up painfully again here. He can shock and lull you to sleep at the same time. And that's very crazy. I sat with tears in my eyes during a scene only to wake up nodding 2 minutes later in the same scene. I hopefully assume that this was the intention and that Noé literally wants to take you into the nightmare, but how long can you stretch a scene man. I get the f*cking point.
And that is actually the same point that caused me to drop out of Enter the Void. Noé is a very interesting (visual) director, but he is not the best storyteller. He has very strong ideas, visually and film-technically, but his stories are paper thin.
For example, the split screen works, doesn't necessarily feel like a gimmick, but showing the cuts by showing frames black every time also shows some "flaws". The in/outs of scenes become visible, and thus also the way of filming. And that's how you can start thinking : ) Was split screen the intention from the start? Isn't this just an alternate take of the same conversation? …
In this film, Noé also exposes the belly of filmmaking to a large extent. And especially with the 1 location / COVID restrictions, that is very interesting to see, but there are so many flaws in this film that it becomes difficult to effectively see and feel the story through those many obstacles.
And that's something I've had many times with Noé, despite Debie's always very beautiful cinematography!
hvdriel
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- 385 messages
- 350 votes
Crushing movie.
I myself became the demented woman, it seemed, I was so confused by the split screen, the messy labyrinthine house, the silences, the wandering, the sadness, the tight picture frame, the black at every editing transition, the almost always non-music and the empty slot.
I wanted to leave, but the film chained me relentlessly.
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