{"id":82304,"date":"2022-08-06T14:31:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/a-divided-portrait-of-aging-illness-and-love-that-still-has-a-familiar-flavor\/"},"modified":"2022-08-06T14:31:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T09:01:45","slug":"a-divided-portrait-of-aging-illness-and-love-that-still-has-a-familiar-flavor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/a-divided-portrait-of-aging-illness-and-love-that-still-has-a-familiar-flavor\/","title":{"rendered":"a divided portrait of aging, illness and love that still has a familiar flavor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The name of Gaspar No\u00e9 is one that we inevitably associate with nightmares and transgression. His films are the closest thing one can feel as an active experience in an experience as passive as watching a movie, since they go head-on against you. Whether with incredible sensory atmospheres, technical wonders that seem impossible or with stories so intense that they seem to tear their skin off before you, his movies run you over<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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That is why it can be shocking that he opts for a film like ‘Vortex<\/strong>‘, which is released in theaters as his most mature work where he leaves his most histrionic parts to tell an intimate and heartbreaking story about old age, illness and complex love. It doesn’t seem like what is expected. but the movie ends up hiding under its surface various aspects of the house brand<\/strong> that make it a family experience, even if it ends up being different.<\/p>\n

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time erases everything<\/h2>\n

The entrance to the film already creates a concrete frame. “To all those whose brains decompose before their hearts” reads a cartouche at the beginning to leave that complex mix of melancholy and devastation in our minds before the performance begins. Next, we see how rescue that split screen you already put to good use<\/strong> in his fabulousLux Aeterna<\/u>‘, although here he has a less epileptic goal.<\/p>\n

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Dario Argento and Fran\u00e7oise Lebrun play an elderly couple in France, with Alex Lutz playing their troubled and troubled son. She suffers from a neurodegenerative disease, and her loss of orientation and awareness of what she is doing are frequent.<\/p>\n

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He is a writer’s block who has already taken on the daily difficulties of dealing with his wife’s illness. No\u00e9 assures that there is part of his experiences – of blockage, of having a family member with dementia, of looking death in the eye – in this film, although it is not autobiographical nor does he try to sell it as “his most personal story”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The stillness and measure with which the story is presented to us<\/strong> and the interactions of these characters break with how their films usually flow. The touch of the divided screens showing different perspectives in parallel -a fabulous detail that serves to accentuate the division and distance that the disease generates- seems the only unconventional element typical of someone as habitually provocative as he is.<\/p>\n

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‘Vortex’: spiral without brake<\/h2>\n

However, as the story unfolds we are seeing more touches in it typical of the intense experiences of his films. Without giving up the intimacy with which it presents, we witness moments that become really distressing<\/strong>others that get really uncomfortable to the point of heartbreaking, and others that shake your spine up and down in shock.<\/p>\n

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In those moments he achieves a devastating reflection on the difficulty of love during illness, on the way in which time erases everything and even makes a stinging comment about drugs<\/strong> which is not so far from ‘Climax’.<\/p>\n

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The apparent intimacy and austerity of the proposal manages to hide that this is one of Noah’s most ambitious films<\/strong>, who tries to make one of his intense and unsettling spirals from another prism and with other tools. Arriving at the same active experience by another path, an apparently passive one.<\/p>\n

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An ambition that sometimes collides with the full development of the story, which becomes unstable as it approaches the end and the filmmaker takes some shortcuts to get to the moments he wants. The almost two and a half hours of it are not round, but it is fair to recognize that they have some of the most lucid moments of the filmmaker<\/strong>. For that alone, ‘Vortex’ is a work to consider.<\/p>\n

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