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Vortex Reviews
The maverick director spares his audience none of the harrowing hopelessness facing an ageing couple in this small-scale but intense study.
A haunting rumination on old age and death, but lacks the narrative and emotional consistency needed to make it fully engaging.
It is sincere, and I think the split screen works a lot better than I thought.
This is Gaspar Noé at his most approachable and simultaneously disconsolate.
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.
Noé has shocked us with a film so personal and different from what he's previously offered. [Full review in Spanish]
At times Vortex finds harmony by combining identical shots from different angles; Other times, it soaks up the home tension by contrasting the movement on the left side with the static right side. And vice versa.
For all its compassion, though, it’s still a gruelling work in its account of old age’s terrors.
Noé is best when he’s leaning into the edge-lord cinema that he’s known for, but he is clearly thinking deeper and more personally with this movie.
The absolute lack of compassion towards the characters is the kind of affront that jeopardizes what is probably Gaspar Noé's best film. [Full review in Spanish]
The last feature of Noe it is nothing that Noe did before. [Film review in Spanish]
With Vortex, [Noé] is once again pessimistic (though there are some who may call him a realist), but he does without the cynicism that defines his filmography. [Full review in Spanish]
Perhaps the most tender and calm film within a filmography dedicated to moral shock wrapped in visual shrillness. [Full review in Spanish]
“Vortex” is an elegant piece of filmmaking on a difficult subject – old age.
While dealing with the gloomy aspect of the subject, this demanding, depressing, and moving film shows an atrocious lucidity.
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.
Almost ten years after another cinematic provocateur, Michael Haneke, made a film about an elderly couple with a single child facing mortality (“Amour”), along comes writer/director Gaspar Noé with his take and it is far and away the superior film.
Noé reminds us that, no matter how exasperating his style may be at times, there's a real artist at work here whose vision helps to bring the challenging subject matter of "Vortex" to rich, vibrant life.
Vortex is a conundrum: so wrenching it feels hard to ask an audience to give it their time, so honest it demands they do.
Vortex is a deeply moving, profoundly powerful, yet unsentimental film about shared old age, the slow approach of death, and the ultimate impossibility of facing said death with anyone other than yourself for company.