Line #23 Creator/GasparNoe


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3	Gaspar Noé[[note]]pronounced "gas-PAR no-WAY"[[/note]] (born December 27, 1963 in Buenos Aires, UsefulNotes/{{Argentina}}) is an Argentine-French director based in France who is considered one of the biggest names attached to both the {{euroshlock}} and New French Extremity film movements, which gives you some insight into what type of films he specializes in making.
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5	Noé's works often use the same techniques, including intense subject matter, a thematic focus on nihilism and/or existentialism, and experimental cinematography. These elements combine to make cinematic experiences that aim to confront and disturb as much as dazzle and stun, and routinely generate polarized reactions and strong controversy.
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7	This is a reputation Noé has seemingly [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity embraced whole-heartedly]] as part of his public persona; the French DVD for ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'' proudly declares the number of walkouts at its premiere, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/109836628_753305272085356_2590864351973211174_n.jpg one of the posters]] for ''Film/{{Climax}}'' is directly from the perspective of him as a nefarious TrollingCreator, and he [[https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/may/22/gaspar-noe-six-people-walked-out-of-climax-no-i-usually-have-25 once expressed disappointment in an interview]] that the latter film didn't cause ''more'' walkouts.
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9	Aside from his features, Noé has a healthy backlog of short films under his belt, as well as music videos for the likes of Music/AnimalCollective, Music/{{Placebo}}, and Music/NickCave among others. He has also written, produced, and at least co-edited almost all of his features.
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11	He has gone on record stating that Creator/StanleyKubrick is his chief directorial influence, namely through ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', which single-handedly inspired him to become a director after watching it at 7.
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13	!!Films he directed:
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15	* ''Tintarella di luna'' (short; 1985)
16	* ''Pulpe amère'' (short; 1987)
17	* ''Carne'' (short; 1991)
18	* ''Une expérience d'hypnose télévisuelle'' (short; 1995)
19	* ''Sodomites'' (short; 1998)
20	* ''Film/IStandAlone'' (feature; 1998)
21	* ''Intoxication'' (short; 2002)
22	* ''Film/{{Irreversible}}'' (feature; 2002)
23	* ''Eva'' (short; 2005)
24	* ''SIDA'' (short; 2006, part of the anthology film ''8'')
25	* ''We Fuck Alone'' (short; 2006, part of the anthology film ''Destricted'')
26	* ''42'' (short; 2009)
27	* ''Film/EnterTheVoid'' (feature; 2009)
28	* ''Ritual'' (short; 2012, part of the anthology film ''7 Days in Havana'')
29	* ''Shoot'' (short; 2014, part of the anthology film ''Short Plays'')
30	* ''Film/{{Love\|2015}}'' (feature; 2015)
31	* ''Film/{{Climax}}'' (feature; 2018)
32	* ''Lux Aeterna'' (medium film for Saint Laurent "SELF" campaign; 2019)
33	* ''Summer of '21'' (short for Saint Laurent; 2021)
34	* ''Vortex'' (feature; 2021)
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36	!!Tropes that apply to Gaspar Noé include:
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38	* AmazingTechnicolorWorld: ''Enter the Void'' (set in Japan), ''Love'', and Noé's music video work.
39	* CallBack: Each film starts with something distinctive from the previous one.
40	** The plot of ''Carne'' is issued as a photo montage at the start of ''I Stand Alone''.
41	** ''Irreversible'' starts with a closing credits sequence that looks identical to that of ''I Stand Alone'', but runs in reverse. The first scene presented in ''Irreversible'' is also an epilogue to ''I Stand Alone''.
42	** The grating noise (a song called "The End") and strobing text that closes ''Irreversible'' also opens ''Enter the Void''.
43	** ''Love'' opens with a scene where a man ejaculates, like in the final scene in ''Enter the Void''. Extra plus is that ''Enter the Void'' ended in a Love Hotel filled with people having sex, which is pretty much all ''Love'' is about (a model of the Love Hotel from ''Enter the Void'' is seen in the bedroom at the beginning of the film.)
44	** ''Climax'' starts out with the Gary Numan's electronic cover of the first movement of Erik Satie's "Gymnopedie", whereas ''Love'' ends with the acoustic cover of it. The movie also has that flashy, font-style changing credit sequence from ''Enter the Void''.
45	** The character of Lui in ''Vortex'' is said to be writing a book called 'Psyche', which shares it's name with a character in ''Climax''.
46	* CrapsackWorld: Though never stated outright in-universe, each film gives its own sense of dread about the particular nastiness of the world it's set in.
47	* DizzyCam: The camera tends to do this quite a bit.
48	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: ''I Stand Alone'' is shot in a noticeably different style than the two films that showcase Noé's SignatureStyle (and made him famous, to boot.) Noé's sense of editing is left intact, however.
49	* EpilepticFlashingLights: Noe's use of strobing lights and imagery in his films can certainly trigger seizures in those with photosensitive epilepsy. Strobing text, a strobing lamp within a scene, even the full screen strobing, is all common in his works.
50	* HeAlsoDid: He shot the cover for Music/SkyFerreira's debut album ''Night Time, My Time''.
51	* LateArrivalSpoiler: ''Irreversible'' contains this for ''I Stand Alone'': [[spoiler: The Butcher slept with his autistic daughter and went to jail for it.]]
52	* LighterAndSofter: ''Love'' is a couple shades lighter than his previous work, but only for including a lot of warm colours and sexual intercourse.
53	** In terms of content, ''Vortex'' is ''much'' lighter than most of his works, as it's completely free from sex, violence, and SensoryAbuse. However, in terms of story and themes, it is as dark and intense as his more notorious works.
54	* MaleFrontalNudity: Brief scenes of a penis feature in ''Irreversible'' and ''Enter the Void''; it gets considerably more attention in ''Love''.
55	* TheOner: His works are known for lengthy shots, such as the rape scene in ''Irreversible'' and the conversation leading up to the drug bust in ''Enter the Void'', and almost the ''entire second half'' of ''Climax''. His music videos and shorts are also oners:
56	** [=SebastiAn=]'s "Love in Motion" follows a teenage girl while she dances around her room, and "Thirst" is about a man being beaten up in a nightclub after making unwanted advances to a woman.
57	** Music/AnimalCollective's "Applesauce" is a close-up of a silhouetted woman eating a juicy apple.
58	** Music/NickCave's "We No Who U R" is a shadowy figure walking through the woods at night.
59	** His short ''Shoot'' shows a long [[TheOner one take]] first-person view of a street soccer match....''from the perspective of the soccer ball''.
60	* ProductionPosse:
61	** Noé enlisted Music/DaftPunk member Thomas Bangalter to create the score for ''Irreversible'', ''Enter the Void'' and ''Climax''. As Bangalter was busy with ''Film/TronLegacy'' when he was called for ''Enter the Void'', he instead provided a giant library of ambient sounds and excerpts of industrial/electroacoustic/musique concrète compositions, all of which is present in the film.
62	** Cinematographer Benoît Debie is responsible for the lushness of visuals seen in Noè's filmography from ''Irreversible'' onwards.
63	** Tom Kan is the designer behind the logo-filled opening credits of ''Enter the Void'' and ''Climax''.
64	** The cast of ''Lux Aeterna'', save for the leads Béatrice Dalle and Creator/CharlotteGainsbourg, is mostly populated by actors and crew members who were involved in his previous films, mostly from ''Love'' and ''Climax''.
65	* SensoryAbuse: His films often employs this, either through visuals, camerawork, and [[BrownNote sounds]].
66	* SignatureStyle: Seen in all but his first film, which only contains the title cards; ''Love'' and ''Lux Aeterna'', which kept the font but put all the text at the end. Most of these are notably absent in ''Vortex'', except for the realism, lengthy takes, and credits that opens the film.
67	** Title cards written in a distinctive font.
68	** Strobing lights. In ''Lux Aeterna'', the first and last 15 minutes of the film are laid with nonstop RGB strobe lights.
69	** Strobing text.
70	** Lengthy takes.
71	** Experimental, dizzying camera movements.
72	** Realism in characters, often achieved by casting non-actors, with actions going all the way up to unsimulated sex.
73	** [[ViolenceIsDisturbing Extreme violence]].
74	** Divisive subject matter.
75	** The closing credits also open his films.
76	* SplitScreen: His recent works ''Lux Aeterna'', ''Summer of '21'', and ''Vortex'' utilizes this technique to show other angles and perspectives at the same time.
77	* TakeThatCritics: Noé cast himself as a highly visible masturbator inside the gay club The Rectum in ''Irreversible'' as a way of saying that he wasn't better than homosexuals, since he knew he'd get called out on it when the film premiered (which he was.)
78	* ViolenceIsDisturbing: He is very fond of this--the violence featured in his movies is always graphic and revolting. ''Irreversible'' in particular features a brutal rape scene that goes on, uninterrupted, '''for nine minutes'''.

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