VORTEX

[Machine Translation] Director Gaspar Noe and lead actor Dario Argento: Will the brain or the heart be the first to be destroyed? Director Gaspar Noe, who has been provoking the world with his experimental experiments and extreme depictions in each of his new films, has created a new world based on his own experiences with the themes of "illness" and "death," without mentioning "violence" or "sex. How do people die? This is Gaspar Noe's newest and greatest work, a head-on, cold-blooded depiction of a reality that anyone would want to turn away from. Starring Dario Argento, the king of horror films, in his first starring role at the age of 80, and Francoise Leblanc, who made her impressive film debut as a prostitute in "Mama and the Whore" and became a legendary actress. The two actresses give miraculous performances that are hard to believe as acting, and one cannot help but be captivated by their performances. The split-screen production shows the daily lives of an elderly couple simultaneously from two different perspectives. The family is at odds with each other, unforeseen events occur, and death soon follows. We are sucked into a vortex of terror without violence, and relive "until death. --A husband who is a writer and a wife who is a former psychiatrist and suffers from dementia. Their son, who lives apart from them, visits their home to ask for financial support. The husband, who suffers from a chronic heart condition, is troubled by his wife's dementia, which grows more severe by the day, and eventually begins to interfere with their daily lives. The two are approaching the end of their lives...

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監督ギャスパー・ノエ×主演ダリオ・アルジェント 壊れるのは、脳が先か、心が先かー 同時進行で映し出される老夫婦、人生最期の"死に様"。新作のたびにその実験的な試みと過激描写で世界中を挑発し続けてきた鬼才ギャスパー・ノエ監督が、"暴力""セックス"を封印、"病"と"死"をテーマに自身の経験を経て新たな世界を作り上げた。人はどう死んでいくのか? 誰もが目をそむけたくなる現実を、真正面から冷徹なまでにまざまざと描いたギャスパー・ノエ監督の新境地にして最高傑作。主演は、80歳にして初主演を果たしたホラー映画の帝王ダリオ・アルジェントと、『ママと娼婦』の娼婦役で鮮烈な映画デビューを飾り伝説的な女優となったフランソワーズ・ルブラン。演技とは思えないふたりの奇跡の名演に目を奪われずにはいられない。スプリットスクリーンの画面分割によって、老夫婦の日常が2つの視点から同時進行で映し出されていく。心通わぬ家族、不測の出来事、やがて訪れる死。我々は、暴力なき恐怖の渦に吸い込まれ、"死ぬまで"を追体験する。――作家である夫と元精神科医で認知症を患う妻。離れて暮らす息子は、2人を心配しながらも金銭の援助を相談するために家を訪れる。心臓に持病を抱える夫は、日に日に重くなる妻の認知症に悩まされ、やがて、日常生活に支障をきたすようになる。そして、ふたりに人生最期の時が近づいていた・・・。

映像特典: イベント映像 (ギャスパー・ノエ監督登壇舞台挨拶) (予定)