by Allan Fish
(France 2009 161m) DVD1/2
I will watch you from the sky
p Pierre Vuffin, Braham Chioua, Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier, Vincent Maraval d Gaspar Noé w Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Gaspar Noé ph Benoit Debie ed Marc Boucrot, Gaspar Noé m Thomas Bengalter art Jean-André Carrière, Kikuo Ohta, Marc Caro cos Nicoletta Massone
Nathaniel Brown (Oscar), Paz de la Huerta (Linda), Cyril Roy (Alex), Olly Alexander (Victor), Masato Tanno (Mario), Ed Spear (Bruno), Emily Alyn Lind (young Linda), Jesse Kuhn (Little Oscar), Sara Stockbridge (Suzy), Janice Béliveau-Sicotte (mother),
The arrival of a new Gaspar Noé film on the cinematic horizon is always something to look-forward to, an event in an age when event cinema really doesn’t come along too long. Not the carefully packaged, non-descript blandness of a Hollywood franchise but the latest work of a cinematic visionary. Those people who don’t make movies, don’t even make films, but make cinema. There’s Von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Haneke, Malick, Lynch – P.T.Anderson perhaps, the way he’s going – and Noé. And for Noé it had been seven years since the inflammatory Irreversible when Enter the Void reached Cannes in a rough cut in May 2009. We expected something that would divide audiences between the enraptured and the appalled; we weren’t to be disappointed. (more…)