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Vortex
Directed by
Gaspar Noé
Not Rated
2021
2h 22m
Drama
7.4
92%
73%
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The last days of an elderly couple stricken by dementia.
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Cast of Vortex
Dario Argento
Lui
Françoise Lebrun
Elle
Alex Lutz
Stéphane
Kamel Benchemekh
Grocer
Corinne Bruand
Claire
Nathalie Roubaud
Junkie
Kylian Dheret
Kiki
Philippe Rouyer
Editorial Friend
Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
Editorial Friend
Laurent Aknin
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Stephane Derderian
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Jean-Baptiste Thoret
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Gaspar Noé
Director / Writer
Édouard Weil
Producer
Vincent Maraval
Producer
Brahim Chioua
Producer
Vortex Ratings & Reviews
Kermode and Mayo's Take (YouTube)
Mark Kermode
It is sincere, and I think the split screen works a lot better than I thought.
Chicago Reader
Maxwell Rabb
Vortex is a grim and touching depiction of how a family deals with death.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
It's a bone-deep sensory immersion that never feels merely sensationalist, anchored by two performances of astonishing commitment and emotional power.
Washington Post
Hau Chu
A quiet, compassionate and ultimately devastating film about the twilight days of an elderly couple.
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Unrelenting and inconsolable, with a smattering of compassionate moments, the superb Vortex brings to mind an observation attributed to actress Bette Davis, no less: Getting old ain't for sissies.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A formally bold and distinctive drama, employing a meticulous aesthetic design and two superb lead performances to craft a chilling portrait of the end times.
AV Club
Luke Y. Thompson
Vortex looks unsparingly at characters at the end of life, and finds their experiences as scary as any traditional horror tale.
Crooked Marquee
Kimber Myers
Gaspar Noé still uses the cinematic tricks up his sleeve, but this time, hes going deeper and seems less intent on simply screwing with the viewer.
RogerEbert.com
Glenn Kenny
One leaves Vortex feeling cleansed by fire.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
With Vortex, the law of diminishing returns eventually kicks in -- there's a point at which an audience is likely to shut down rather than remain porous.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Bilge Ebiri
Gaspar Noé's Vortex is perhaps the most human movie he's ever made. And yet, somehow, it's also the cruelest.
Variety
Owen Gleiberman
About the only thing Noé has up his sleeve is his desire to rub our noses in the acrid sting of death.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
A relentlessly realistic horror story, and its primary horrors are the infirmities and indignities of old age.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It's a blunt reckoning with the inevitability of loss, including the loss of memory. We dream for a while, and then we sleep.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
"Vortex" could certainly benefit from a few trims. In this case, that would actually suit the movie, a tribute to the ever-evolving nature of life and its many unpredictable twists.
TheWrap
Jason Solomons
With its uncommonly human touch and restless, unflinching visual aesthetic, Vortex might well be Noe's finest and most thoughtful work.
The Playlist
Jessica Kiang
Death, may not be very pleasant but, sedate and dignified and swathed in vaguely biblical white sheets, it doesn't get anything like the bad press that old age does in Gaspar Noé's "Vortex."
Slant Magazine
Pat Brown
Merciless but affecting, Vortex suggests that one respite from the loneliness of life lived in the shadow of death is the realm of dreams.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Todd McCarthy
The prolonged period spent with these two does provide a bracing, depressing, realistic and altogether sobering insight into what your grandparents, parents and, one day, you will have to face if you live long enough.
The Hollywood Reporter
Boyd van Hoeij
It feels like a more mature Noé has arrived...
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