Cold Open · Essay · nov 15, 2022

Vortex (2021): A Conversation With Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Noe has spent twenty years being cinema's most polarising provocateur — and Vortex, his most restrained and devastating film, may be the one that converts the doubters. Speaking with Kiriko, Noe discusses how the film's radical split-screen structure emerged from the truth of dementia: two people living in the same space, in entirely separate realities. He reflects on collaborating with Italian giallo master Dario Argento, his enduring love for Tokyo, and what it means to make a film about dying that insists on looking directly at what everyone else looks away from.

By Elliot Bloom

Film Journalist · Celebrating Cinema

Widely regarded as the bald bad boy of contemporary French cinema, Gaspar Noé has been disrupting movies and polarising opinions for the past twenty years with his visceral blend of provocative films. Joining filmmaker Kiriko, Gaspar discusses his latest film Vortex (2021), as well as his experiences working with legendary Italian ‘giallo’ maestro Dario Argento and his love for Tokyo, as depicted in Enter The Void.

Special thanks to Paradiso Films for this amazing opportunity.

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Gaspar Noé is an Argentinian filmmaker and screenwriter who lives in France. He is the son of Luis Felipe Noé, an Argentinian artist. He directed I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void, Love, Climax, Carne, Lux Æterna, Sodomites and Vortex. His films are known for having a sensory overload style, most notably in Enter the Void.