Gaspar Noé

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Gaspar Noé at the Cannes International Film Festival 2012

Gaspar Noé (born December 27, 1963 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine director , screenwriter , cameraman and film producer . With his controversial works Misanthropic and Irreversible , the filmmaker earned a reputation as a scandal director in Europe .

biography

childhood and education

Born in Argentina, Gaspar Noé grew up in Buenos Aires and New York before moving to France with his family at the age of 12 . After graduating from school, he studied philosophy and film studies at the Ecole Louis Lumière in Paris . After completing his studies, Noé initially worked as an assistant director . 1985 assisted Gaspar Noe Argentinian director and screenwriter Fernando E. Solanas in his work l'exil de Gardel tango , decide where several Paris-based exile Argentines, a tango - ballet in honor of their famous compatriot Carlos Gardel to create. The film won an award at the Venice Film Festival and was submitted as an official Argentinian entry for the Academy Awards a year later, but could not prevail against the competition there.

Also in 1985 Gaspar Noé made his directorial debut with the short film Tintarella di Luna . The 18-minute film, shot alternately in black and white and in color, takes place in a village, somewhere at the end of the world, in which a woman leaves her husband to meet her lover on the other side of the river. Two years later, the 6-minute color film Pulpe Almère follows , in which a man breaks into his housemaid's room one night in Buenos Aires and tries to rape her , while a feature section on the radio describes the thoughts of a man who falls into a passionate love increases. In 1988 Noé regained experience as an assistant director under Fernando E. Solanas. In South Sur , Solanas tells the story of Floreal, a man who was released from prison in 1983 after the military dictatorship in Argentina ended. But instead of going back to his wife , Floreal wanders the nightly streets of Buenos Aires, which becomes a stroll into his own past. Old acquaintances meet, mostly based on his imagination, and he recapitulates his arrest and life in prison.

Breakthrough as a short film director and debut feature film

In 1991 Gaspar Noé caused an international sensation with his short film Carne . The 40-minute work takes place between 1965 and 1979 and introduces the character of a Parisian horse butcher (played by Philippe Nahon ) who has developed an abysmal hatred of those around him. His hatred gets an outlet when a man attacks his young daughter who has autism . The butcher wants revenge, but disfigures the wrong man and is sentenced to prison in the end. The disturbing film was critically acclaimed internationally and u. a. Awarded at the Cannes Film Festival . This was followed by the 27-minute TV production Une expérience d'hypnose télévisuelle (1995) as well as several TV commercials for the French environmental organization Ligue ROC .

With financial support from the fashion designer Agnès B. Gaspar Noé's first full-length feature film followed in 1998: In Misanthropy , he continues the story of the butcher, which he had introduced seven years earlier in his short film Carne , where he could again fall back on the actor Philippe Nahon. The film begins with the butcher's release from prison. He wants to start a new life and has his mentally retarded daughter admitted to an institution . He moves to a suburb of Lille with his pregnant partner, whom he does not love, and plans to open a slaughterhouse. The wishes for a new beginning are shattered, however, and the butcher gets into an argument with his girlfriend due to a misunderstanding and injures her so badly that the unborn child is killed. He then fled to Paris and took a hotel room. A few francs and a three-bullet pistol are all he has left, and his hatred of a society that knows no justice is beginning to discharge again. The intense killing and sex scenes in the film divided critics and viewers, but Noé received another award in Cannes. Misanthropist wins several festival prizes. In 1998 and 1999 Gaspar Noé directed two music videos ( Insanely Cheerful by the group Bone Fiction and Je suis si mince by the French artist Arielle ), and the short film Sodomites was made with the help of Philipp Nahon . Noé also worked in an advisory capacity as a camera operator on the short film Good Boys Use Condoms by French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic .

Irreversible scandal

After a four-year break, Gaspar Noé's second feature film followed in 2002. In Irreversibel three people are at the center: the beautiful Alex, her boyfriend Marcus and Alex's ex-boyfriend Pierre. All three want to party at a party, but after an argument with Marcus, Alex decides to go home alone. As Alex crosses a lonely underpass, she is attacked by an unknown man, raped and injured so badly that she falls into a coma . Shocked by the crime, Marcus and Pierre investigate themselves to find the perpetrator.

Noé's script consisted of only three pages; the actors had to improvise their dialogues. In addition, the design is interesting due to several demanding tracking shots without cutting. Irreversibel received particular authenticity from the fact that Noé was able to win an actor couple with Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci for the leading roles. The film premiered on May 23, 2002 at the Cannes Film Festival. Had Misanthrope worked disturbing to viewers and critics, so Noé polarized with this backward told film even more. Already at the beginning of the film, in which a brutal killing scene is shown, two hundred of the 2400 premiere guests left the cinema, before the 10-minute rape scene towards the end of the second period.

Irreversible was promoted by the media as a scandalous film , and the American magazine Newsweek awarded Gaspar Noé's second feature the title “most walked-out-of movie of the year” . Nevertheless, the film won several awards, including the trophy for best film at the Stockholm Film Festival and a nomination for the Danish film award Bodil , for best non-American film.

2004 to 2012

After the irreversible scandal , Gaspar Noé held back with the plans for his third feature film. In 2004 he directed the music video Protege Moi for the internationally successful rock band Placebo and realized two AIDS commercials that increasingly encouraged the use of condoms. In 2005 there followed three short films about the Czech model Eva Herzigová , which Noé made for the French TV broadcaster Canal Plus . In the same year he officially announced that the shooting of his third feature film would start shortly. a. is co-financed by the producers of the film Run Lola Run . The English-language production Enter the Void is set in Japan and is about the casual dealer Oscar, the last minutes of his life and his experiences after death. The work on the film dragged on through the extensive post-production until 2009. In the same year Noé received an invitation to enter the competition at the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival for Enter the Void . In 2012, the compilation film 7 días en La Habana about the Cuban capital was made together with Laurent Cantet , Benicio Del Toro , Julio Médem , Elia Suleiman , Juan Carlos Tabío and Pablo Trapero .

Love

In 2015 his film Love was released . Frank Olbert judged this film: “Seldom has a film looked so obviously at scandal and taboo breakage as this one, and perhaps even more rarely did this effort lead to such indifference on the part of the viewer as 'Love'. This film is not even embarrassing, or only insofar as its constructions and claims are simply grotesque and boastful. ”The film is“ not much more than sex ”and provides“ a very narrow definition of love ”, stated Roderich Fabian.

Noé himself defends himself against the recurring accusation that he is a director who aims solely at the scandal. In an interview in December 2018, he said: "A scandal is useless per se." For him, it is more about depicting life with all its hardships. As a youth he was socialized with films by Fassbinder , Pasolini , Scorsese and Cronenberg , who relentlessly described existence in all its facets in their films. Commercial cinema does that less today: "I have the feeling that my films seem more scandalous today than they would have done in the 1970s or 1980s."

Climax

Noé's last film Climax was released in German cinemas on December 6, 2018 . The music drama was received positively by the critics, with Rotten Tomatoes the film was able to convince 72 percent of the critics. The film service judged: “The dance film, carried by rousing club music, celebrates transgressive cinema in which sex, violence and breaking taboos are more lived out than contextualized. That irritates and disturbs, but at the same time fascinates as a radical orgy of unleashing, especially since the decidedly cinematic perspective cannot be assigned to a human gaze. "

Private

In his private life, Gaspar Noé, who often goes into the underground scene to research his films, is in a relationship with the director and actress Lucile Hadzihalilovic . Both met in 1987 while filming La première mort de Nono . Noé gave his partner a supporting role in Carne in 1991 and produced her film La bouche de Jean-Pierre in 1996 .

Filmography

Director

  • 1985: Tintarella di Luna
  • 1987: Pulpe Almère
  • 1991: Carne
  • 1995: Une expérience d´hypnose télévisuelle (TV)
  • 1998: Intoxication
  • 1998: Sodomites
  • 1998: Misanthrope ( Seul contre tous )
  • 2002: Irreversible ( Irréversible )
  • 2006: Destricted ( omnibus film , contribution 'We Fuck Alone')
  • 2007: 8 (omnibus film, contribution 'SIDA')
  • 2009: Enter the Void ( Soudain le vide )
  • 2012: 7 días en La Habana (compilation film)
  • 2015: Love
  • 2018: Climax
  • 2019: Lux Æterna

Screenwriter

  • 1991: Carne
  • 1995: Une expérience d´hypnose télévisuelle (TV)
  • 1998: Misanthrope ( Seul contre tous )
  • 2002: Irreversible ( Irréversible )
  • 2009: Enter the Void ( Soudain le vide )
  • 2015: Love
  • 2019: Lux Æterna

actor

camera operator

producer

Assistant director

Awards

Cannes Film Festival

  • 1991: Festival award for the best short film for Carne
  • 1998: Mercedes-Benz Prize for Misanthrope
  • 2002: nominated for the Palme d'Or for irreversible
  • 2009 : nominated for the Palme d'Or for Enter the Void

Further

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The naked boredom ( Memento from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Paul Katzenberger: "A scandal is useless per se". In: SZ.de. December 9, 2018, accessed March 17, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Climax. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  5. ^ Esther Buss: Climax. In: Filmdienst. Retrieved March 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Sex, drugs and a bit of dance film
personal data
SURNAME Noé, Gaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine film director
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires , Argentina