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May 13, 2018 · “Climax” is much better than either “Enter the Void” or “Love,” in which Noé worked so hard to shove everything to the extreme — that’s basically his brand — that more quite quickly become...
Mar 1, 2019 · "Climax" has much in common with "Irreversible" and "Enter the Void," although "Climax" is also a weirdo acid-trip polemic (there's that flag of France on the wall, a flag everyone mentions with uneasiness and disgust).
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Feb 11, 2023 · Love, from 2015, featured multiple scenes of graphic, unsimulated sex (in 3D!), and Climax (2018) is a psychedelic horror, in which a group of dancers have their drinks spiked with LSD, resulting ...
- Barry Levitt
- Freelance Writer
I think Irreversible hangs together as, like, a film better than Climax, but Climax is definitely, well... a trip. Very very quiet audience during the end credits. Fully half the cinema was still sitting there processing as the curtains closed and the lights came up.
- The Concept of Spoiler
- Violence and The Futility of Revenge
- Atmosphere
- The Structure
- The Ending
- Final Word
I’ve often debated the significance of the concept of “spoilers” in cinema. If a certain plot-point “spoils” a film for you, then there’s something wrong with the movie itself. A good piece of cinema can never be tied down to a mere twist in the story. There are several aspects that go into the making of a film: the aesthetics, style, vision, philo...
The great Austrian auteur Michael Haneke once said that on a visual level, there’s nothing that cinema cannot depict. How and what it chooses to depict defines the vision of the filmmaker. Provocauters like Gaspar Noe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Lars Von Trier and Haneke himself are known to disturb audience in sensational ways. But there are clear stylisti...
Cinematography doesn’t necessarily mean capturing gorgeous shots. The whole idea of cinematography is to define the movie entirely on a visual level. Good cinematography is almost always a product of the filmmaker’s vision. ‘Irreversible’ is a masterclass in building up atmosphere and tension purely using the visual power of the medium. There’s a s...
The most striking aspect of the film is its structure. For those who haven’t seen Noe’s debut film ‘I Stand Alone’ may not get what the opening sequence is all about. “The Butcher”, a middle-aged man, confesses to his friend that he was arrested for having sex with his daughter. The scene then shifts to Marcus being taken to a hospital from “The Re...
A lot has been spoken about the film’s ambiguous ending. Like all great filmmakers, Noe chooses to leave a lot of questions unanswered, and this has sparked intense debate among cinephiles across the world. As Marcus gets ready for the party, Alex discovers she’s pregnant. The film then takes an abstract turn and we see Alex with her children on a ...
Gasper Noé is an artistic provocateur; his films are controversial but also deeply affecting and devastating. While many till this day still question the need to make a film like ‘Irreversible’, to me it is one of the most powerful cinematic experiences of the century, a movie that could irreparably scar you for life. Those who have accused it of g...
May 12, 2022 · Tips. Summary. Climax and orgasm are both parts of sexual activity. While many people use the words interchangeably, some believe they have different definitions. By these definitions, an orgasm...
Feb 28, 2019 · He is an extremist with a philosophical streak whose movies combine an aesthetic of shock with an almost geeky formalism. He confronts the viewer with graphic sexual violence ( “Irréversible ...
