The latest feature from writer-director Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Climax) explores the last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.
Says...
The latest feature from writer-director Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Climax) explores the last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.
Says Noé: "I’ve been wanting to make a film with elderly people for several years. With my grandparents, then with my mother, I realized that old age involves very complex survival issues. It generates overwhelming situations in which those who have protected you most revert in turn to their childhood. So I imagined a film with an extremely simple narrative, with one person in a state of mental deterioration losing the use of language, and her grandson who has not yet mastered it, as two extremes of this brief experience that is human life."
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92 %91 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
72 %74 reviewsAudience score rating
"In terms of scope, ambition and execution, it’s one of the finest pictures (Noé’s) made."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"The glacial pace of Vortex sometimes tests the patience of even the most committed viewers."
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IndieWire
IndieWire"Oppressive, occasionally mundane, though still quite affecting..."
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Slant Magazine
Slant Magazine"A film that is perhaps more artistically daring than philosophically profound, but is the first Noé film to date that you could actually call moving."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"Though distracting at first, the diptych method becomes easy to adjust to, helping to keep the otherwise mundane story engaging."
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Paste
Paste"It's overwhelmingly (Noé’s) most thoughtful work yet."
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Slash Film
Slash Film"Lebrun is quietly extraordinary in a role that’s stripped bare to its most essential elements..."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterVortex | Details
- Runtime
- 135
- Genre
- Drama
- Country of origin
- Belgium, France, Monaco
