Gaspar Noé
LOVE

“Life is just what you make of it!”

This is one of the concluding lines spoken by Murphy in this film described as a “scandalous auteur pornography in 3D” even by magazines like Vanity Fair, but going back to the start, it must be admitted that Noé goes in hard from the very beginning and then continues with his kama sutra, missing almost nothing, since explicit sex takes up a good 70-80% of the film (not exactly small potatoes or a half-hearted attempt, as they say, but come to think of it, there are plenty of male and female genitals...), and that's that.

I don't know, but the dialogues are all very banal (and I'm not talking about the ones accompanying or preceding the sex scenes, the blowjobs, and the various cunnilingus, which, as we well know, have little or almost nothing intellectual about them…) both in that 70-80% of the film as well as outside the strictly carnal context, i.e., in other interpersonal relationship situations.

If I had been a teenager, well, a film like this (as I was in the early '70s) would have excited me a lot, but today, after what I've managed to see in the XXX world, it leaves me quite calm even though I didn't expect all this explicitness (well-shot and well-acted), Noé himself states in this regard: “There is no form of transgression in my film… before me, there were Pasolini, Fassbinder, and Buñuel. I just had the opportunity to shoot in 3D…”

I'm certainly not discovering hot water by revealing that, from many shots and ways of filming, the director (modestly a Capricorn like me) loves and has drawn from both Stanley Kubrick - whose film 2001 is also mentioned in the movie - and films like Taxi Driver, and such a way of narrating is very welcome, unfortunately, it has a downside in the actors whom I don't know where he found (probably in the world of fashion or similar) apart from the scenes where they make out everything makeoutable and screw almost everything screwable (and I could perform them too, as I'm quite bad at acting), the rest of their performance is really basic, even though the model/actor Karl Glusman later acted with Refn, Tom Ford, and other directors (well, maybe he studied later… ) maybe more for his model physique, I don't know…

There are also moments linked to a certain self-indulgence, explored by calling or naming both Gaspar and Noé in some situations which you will discover by watching the film, and in endowing "the student", or the young main character, with the desire to become a director.

Having said that, in the long run, it bored me quite a bit, this love story unfolds backward and doesn't come to any conclusion, the soundtrack is very enjoyable which I haven't yet read, but I will after posting this of mine on the notorious DeBaser.

PS I don't know what happened to our good-tender Pinhead, absent for months, but I hope he doesn't, hmm, re-ban me for this cover this time…