Vortex

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Vortex

Released Apr 29, 2022

2h 20m

Drama

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A retired psychiatrist with dementia and a struggling author with a heart condition live their final days together in an apartment.

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Critics Consensus

Vortex is Gaspar Noé at his most unflinchingly pitiless -- but viewers who can make it through will be rewarded with a haunting contemplation of death.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)

It is sincere, and I think the split screen works a lot better than I thought.

Feb 7, 2024

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Edward Porter

Times (UK)

For all its compassion, though, it’s still a gruelling work in its account of old age’s terrors.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 24, 2022

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

A meaningful engagement with elder care, dementia and mortality, born of the director’s own experiences with his mother and his near-fatal brain haemorrhage.

Rated: 5/5

Jul 16, 2022

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William Stottor

Loud and Clear Reviews

A haunting rumination on old age and death, but lacks the narrative and emotional consistency needed to make it fully engaging.

Rated: 3/5

Jul 18, 2024

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Hector A. Gonzalez

InSession Film

This is Gaspar Noé at his most approachable and simultaneously disconsolate.

Rated: B+

Jul 21, 2023

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C.H. Newell

Father Son Holy Gore

Noé focuses on the end stages of life and how ageing, as well as illnesses like dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, can turn us into haunted houses, ghosts of ourselves and our lives trapped within the still-living vessel of our flesh and blood.

Rated: 5/5

Jan 24, 2023

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Jonah K

Strips many of the elements that people have claimed he strictly relies on, yet delivers just as devastating of an experience.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/31/24

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favio c

Una pieza de Gaspar que golpea con mensajes sencibles pero sin dejar de lado su parte psicodelica.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/08/23

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dave d

A gripping and difficult watch which will leave the engaged viewer contemplating death, relationships, and much more. It is in a split screen format which works most of the time, but also can be a distraction when the viewer is watching the same scene from two angles. There is so much that is relatable with Gaspar Noé's latest, but it is the actors that make this work. Dario Argento and Françoise Lebrun play a married couple both in failing health and they both use nuance and subtlety to make a point. The story is simple, yet perfectly executed. Final Score: 8.4/10

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

04/01/23

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Jason R

Impressively dull https://uberscaryblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/to-all-those-whose-brains-will.html

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/13/23

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Hasani W

It's called vortex for a reason. I went through a whirlwind of emotions. This film hit me pretty hard with the past three years of seeing the decline and death of loved ones and depicted how surreal these experiences are. A dream within a dream. Needless to say, this is probably a film you only need to watch once.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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Melancholia

Definitely Gaspar Noe's most sentimental film. The director sure has a distinct way to bring his thoughts about life and it's inevitable end to camera in many distinct forms. All of the movies I've seen of him always contemplate life and death in various ways. It's hard for a person to bear it all alone, so it's great to see it addressed in cinema so you know you're not alone.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/30/22

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Synopsis

A retired psychiatrist with dementia and a struggling author with a heart condition live their final days together in an apartment.

Director: Gaspar Noé
Producer: Brahim Chioua
Screenwriter: Gaspar Noé
Distributor: Utopia
Production Co: Rectangle Productions, KNM, Les Cinémas de la Zone
Genre: Drama
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 29, 2022, Limited
Runtime: 2h 20m

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