There’s something frustrating about Noé’s approach, but also an undefinably admirable quality to the extremity of his showmanship.
Lux Æterna
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France · 2020
51m
Director Gaspar Noé
Starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Béatrice Dalle, Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman
Genre Drama, Thriller
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Preparing for a shoot, actresses Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are backstage telling each other stories about past productions gone awry, witches, and being burned at the stake. Meanwhile, technical problems turn into psychotic outbreaks as the shoot gradually plunges into chaos.
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As a minor work, it provides an enjoyable snippet of rambunctious formalism that puts Noé in a category of his own.
The Hollywood Reporter by Leslie Felperin
It's all business as per Noe usual.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
Insufficiently diverting ... Lux Æterna shows Noé reverting to the self-parodic silliness that Climax had taken him past.
Is it enjoyable to watch? Hell no – there’s a reason why everybody on the screen is either screaming or crying for it to stop. But you have to hand it to Noe, because it is kind of mesmerizing in its perverse single-mindedness, and the fact that “Lux Aeterna” is only 50 minutes long makes it more endurable.
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