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International Competition

VORTEX

• Director: Gaspar Noé
• FRANCE, BELGIUM, MONACO / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 135’ / French; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Gaspar Noé
• Director of Photography: Benôit Debie
• Editing: Denis Bedlow
• Cast: Françoise Lebrun, Dario Argento, Alex Lutz
• Producer: Edouard Weil, Vincent Maraval, Brahim Chioua
• Production Co.: Rectangle Productions, Wild Bunch International, Les Cinémas de la Zone, KNM, Artémis Productions, Srab Films, Les Films Velvet, Kallouche Cinéma
• World Sales: Wild Bunch
• Turkish Rights: Bir Film

2022 İstanbul Golden Tulip Best Film, FIPRESCI Prize-International Competition
2022 Dublin Best Film
2021 San Sebastian Zabaltegi-Tabakalera Award
2021 Festival du nouveau cinéma (Montréal) Audience Award
2021 Ghent Grand Prix
2021 Hamburg Critics Award

Shown in the Cannes Premiere section at 2021 Cannes Vortex is a very personal film and a window into Noé's own mortality. Gaspar Noé created the project after suffering a dangerously severe brain haemorrhage which very nearly killed him, followed by the COVID confinement. Starring giallo master Dario Argento, Vortex is almost entirely presented in split screen, as 'each form of life is living in their own tunnel,' and one of the two cameras used for the split screen was operated by Noé himself. A film about the last days of a loving, elderly couple stricken by age and dementia, Gaspar Noé dedicates the film to 'all of the people who lose their minds before they lose their hearts.'

You can watch the Q&A session with Gaspar Noé at the 19 April screening here.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.