Description
Synopsis:
The film is a dedication to cinematography, fashion and contemporary music, through its portrayal of a hypnotic day-long journey through the set of a bizarre film starring Charlotte Gainsbourg. After the Cannes premiere of Ecstasy, the director returned to the festival with a film produced by the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent, in which the actresses – Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle – face their own demons and fashion victims.
Defining the genre of the film, Noé refuses to call it a drama. For him, “Lux Æterna” is a comedy about human conflict, which becomes farcical in its excess.
About the director:
Gaspard Noé, film director and screenwriter, was born in 1963, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and gained worldwide fame in 2002 following the release of the film “Irreversible”. At the age of 12, he moved with his parents to France, where at 17 years old, he entered and graduated from the College of Louis Lumière, but instead of studying cinema, he decided to continue his education at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Paris.
In 1991, he made a short film, “Carne”, which took part in several competitive programmes at the Cannes Film Festival and earned positive reviews from critics. In 1993, he decided to shoot an extended version of this film, however, faced with funding problems, he had to abandon his plans. Come 1995, he worked as a clip maker and editor of television programmes on the Canal+ channel, before shooting his first feature film, “I Stand Alone”, in 1998. The film was presented in Cannes the same year, where it won the Mercedes-Benz Prize, as well as a Special Prize established by a number of French journalists.
In August 2001 he finished shooting the film “Irreversible”, shown the following year in the competition programme of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2009 he shot the film “Enter the Void”, and the draft version premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. In one report, he announced that he was going to shoot an erotic film in 3D. This project was carried out in 2014-2015, when the film “Love” was made and presented to the public. The premiere took place at the Cannes Film Festival, out of competition. As is often the case with Noé, the picture provoked polarising opinions.
In May 2018, his new film “Climax” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The film received the prestigious Art Cinema Award (International Confederation of Feature Films, C.I.C.A.E.), the main award in the Directors Fortnight programme.