Gaspar Noé

Started by MacGuffin, October 19, 2011, 08:03:57 AM

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Gold Trumpet

About the idea Noe can't do joyous in his films, sure, but look at the last moments of Irreversible (essentially the beginning of the story) and those feature some great visual language to underscore one of the happier moments a woman can receive (if wanting the news). I don't think there is any huge graduation to strive for changing pace and feature a different tone. I think Noe has done it before to limited intention and if he wants to really do it for full length, I imagine he could. It's already incredible how much he has expanded in filmmaking since I Stand Alone.

Mel

Quote from: Gold Trumpet on October 28, 2014, 11:39:51 AM
About the idea Noe can't do joyous in his films, sure, but look at the last moments of Irreversible (essentially the beginning of the story) and those feature some great visual language to underscore one of the happier moments a woman can receive (if wanting the news). I don't think there is any huge graduation to strive for changing pace and feature a different tone. I think Noe has done it before to limited intention and if he wants to really do it for full length, I imagine he could. It's already incredible how much he has expanded in filmmaking since I Stand Alone.

If you detach ending from rest of the film, it is joyous. If you look at what happen next (middle and then beginning of the film), it just adds up to the gut punch. Then I think ending is the only thing that saves the film - there is more to it than the rape or head smashing. It is counterbalance - to comprehend ugliness, you must experience beauty at its highest point (or vice versa). One of the reason why "Irreversible" is so misunderstood.
Simple mind - simple pleasures...

Gold Trumpet

Yea, but you say it is counter balance like the rape or head smashing was a dominant feature of the film. Ugliness was all around in all facets but that was just one scene. Speaking of which, the film is pretty inventive with the filmmaking throughout and the head smashing/rape scene is more memorable to the degree it goes but considering some films that try to be as provoking as that scene throughout their entire movie, I think it's overrated to fixate on it as much as some of us do. I think the film's major problem is some superficial elements of story relating back to theme.

Drenk

LOVE.




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Ascension.

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polkablues

He's basically patting Von Trier on the head and calling him "adorable" at this point.
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Gold Trumpet

Noe is the real deal. The more I think about Enter the Void, more I have it as the best of last decade. His filmmaking has been hugely influential elsewhere with other filmmakers and he's going out with every project. His Love project sounds fascinating.

Lottery

Quote from: polkablues on November 04, 2014, 04:57:17 PM
He's basically patting Von Trier on the head and calling him "adorable" at this point.

I don't know, that Nympho director's cut trailer alone was very full on. That said, I wonder how far Noe is willing to push it.

Mel

Quoting yourself is in bad taste, but it feels like some parts of previous discussion are still relevant:

Quote from: Mel on May 23, 2014, 05:13:42 AM
First visuals (low resolution) from "Love": http://pic.twitter.com/IcRbEdk6xu

Quote from: Mel on May 23, 2014, 05:26:05 PM
Sex and Gaspar is nothing new to the point of being uninteresting for me. I'm more looking forward to a cheerful film, which would be a huge change for Noe (which I pointed out in one of the previous posts). In the end there isn't much related to sex that he didn't show already.
Simple mind - simple pleasures...

Mel

Nicolas Winding Refn in conversation with Gaspar Noe
At the Danish Film Institute. 2014. The two directors discuss their work methods, current state of the film industry and their future projects. Space Rocket Nation is the production company of the acclaimed director/producer team of Nicolas Winding Refn and Lene Borglum.



Other news via Le Temps Détruit Tout

QuoteAccording to Le Film Français, Gaspar Noé new movie LOVE will be only screened in 3D.

QuoteWild Bunch published a webpage dedicated to Gaspar Noé's LOVE. Not a lot of informations at the moment. Click on the following synopsis for visiting the website:
LOVE is beyond GOOD and EVIL. LOVE is SPERM, FLUIDS and TEARS. LOVE is a SEXUAL MELODRAMA about a BOY, a GIRL and ANOTHER GIRL
Simple mind - simple pleasures...

Mel

Some scraps about Love via Le Temps Detruit Tout:

QuoteGaspar Noé's LOVE: first official cast & crew list

The Cannes Film Festival 2015 just put online the first credits for Gaspar Noé's LOVE:

Credits

Gaspar NOÉ - Director
Gaspar NOÉ - Script / Dialogue
Samantha BENNE - Set decorator
Gaspar NOÉ - Film Editor
Denis BEDLOW - Film Editor
Ken YASUMOTO - Sound

Actors

Karl GLUSMAN - Murphy
Aomi MUYOCK - Electra
Klara KRISTIN - Omi

LOVE Running time: 135 mn

QuoteGaspar Noé's LOVE very first still + synopsis

NSFW still

January the 1st, early morning. The telephone rings. Murphy wakes up next to his young wife and 2-year-old child. He listens to his voicemail: Electra's mother, sick with worry, wants to know whether he has heard from her daughter. Electra's been missing for a long time. She's afraid something really bad has happened to her. Over the course of a long rainy day, Murphy finds himself alone in his apartment, reminiscing about the greatest love affair of his life, his two years with Electra. A burning passion full of promises, games, excesses and mistakes...

QuoteGaspar Noé's LOVE official poster



QuoteExplicit new teaser poster for Gaspar Noé's LOVE 3D

Definitely NSFW poster
Simple mind - simple pleasures...

OpO1832

Gaspar Noe needs to hire a screenwriter and make a movie that has depth, all of his movies are disposable. Great camera moves but outside of cinematography nerds his films don't hold an audience. 

jenkins

Gaspar Noé's Next Film Is 'Psyché,' New Details Emerge

There are few provocateurs in modern cinema quite like Gaspar Noé. The filmmaker stunned audiences with the intense rape drama "Irreversible," tried to give them seizures with "Enter The Void," and pushed himself to the edges of pornography with "Love." Now, the director is setting up his next picture and is staying decidedly #OnBrand.

Details of the project, titled "Psyché" (yep, psyche) have emerged from funding group Tax Shelter Belgium, and fan site Les Temps Detruit Toups. Budgeted at €2.6 million (or about $3.1 million U.S.) the film will take viewers back to the '90s, with another story about drugs, perception, and madness. You know, the usual. Here's the synopsis:

QuoteIn the mid 90's, about twenty urban dancers joined together for a 3-day rehearsal in a closed down boarding school located at the heart of a forest, to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl.

Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it's soon impossible for them to resist to their neurosises and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rythm of the music... While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.

The picture is set for an incredibly brief two-week shoot, and if I understand things correctly, the first cut could be ready by June. So, could there be a new Gaspar Noé film on the festival circuit by the end of the year? Possibly. That said, Tax Shelter Belgium does say that filming is supposed to be wrapped this month, but with no announced cast members, it's unclear if it has already gone into production on the sly or has been delayed. Either way, Noé has something brewing, and it's likely to melt your eyeballs again.

wilder

Quote from: The PlaylistAnother surprise announcement (re: Cannes) comes from filmmaker Gaspar Noe, who is scheduled to premiere a mid-length film, titled "Lux Aeterna", in a special midnight screening. The film is said to be about witches and stars Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beatrice Dalle.

wilder

'Irreversible – Straight Cut' Trailer: Gaspar Noe's Controversial Film Is Re-Cut Chronologically Into "Another Film"
via The Playlist

Perhaps lost in the haze of all the new films debuting at this year's Venice Film Festival is the fact that acclaimed (and controversial) filmmaker Gaspar Noe is unleashing a brand-new film. Well, "brand-new" might be a bit of a misnomer, as what the filmmaker is screening is a new cut of his film "Irreversible," now told in chronological order. However, as Noe explained in his Venice notes about the film, "Irreversible – Straight Cut" isn't just a simple re-edit of the film. It's something much, much more.

Firstly, Noe is quick to assure fans that the version of "Irreversible" that debuted 17 years ago "remains both the director's cut and the real version of the film."

He added, "This new cut is another film."

Originally conceived as a special feature for an upcoming Blu-ray release of the film, Noe found that once he created the cut, it was strong enough to warrant its own release, and thus, the inclusion at this year's Venice Film Festival. And for those that just want to know what the director has changed from the original work, Noe said cuts have been made to the first version to help the "clockwise cut" flow better.

"In this clockwise cut, a few passages without dialogues created lulls in the action and it is for reasons of rhythm alone, not any kind of censorship, that they have been removed, making this version five minutes shorter than the original," he explained.

Ultimately, according to the filmmaker, re-cutting the film in chronological order presents a version that is completely different in tone to the controversial original.

"Putting the scenes in clockwise order makes it easier to identify with the characters and understand the tale unfolding. The same story is no longer a tragedy, this time it is a drama that brings out the psychology of the characters and the mechanisms that lead some of them to a murderous barbarity," said Noe. "While 'Irreversible' has sometimes been wrongly perceived as a 'rape and revenge' B movie, here the deadly outcome is all the more depressing. The film can be more easily seen as a fable on the contagion of barbarity and the command of the reptilian brain over the rational mind."

He continued, "Removing the anti-clockwise structure, a mentally invasive formal concept, brings out the actors' performances that much more forcefully. The gentleness or violence of the situations and the emotional states of the characters become even more apparent"

A formal release of "Irreversible – Straight Cut" has yet to be revealed.