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Director of Irreversible
Background:
“With a short (film) you are allowed to do whatever you want. It’s like if you
have a girlfriend and she tells you that you can do whatever you want. That’s
very exciting.” Gasper Noe
Bald-headed Franco-Argentine filmmaker Gaspar Noé has made some seriously
distressing movies during his relatively short career, which generally cope with
controversial issues like rape, vengeance, violence, pornography, homophobia,
misogyny, bigotry and xenophobia. He has also won several critical awards and
festival praise for each of his works. Three of his most famous films are the
short Carne (1991), which won a Cannes Film Festival Award and an Avignon Film
Festival Award, I Stand Alone (1998), picking up a Cannes Film Festival Award, a
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival Award, a Sarajevo Film Festival
Award and a Boston Underground Film Festival Awars, and Irreversible (2002),
earning a Stockholm Film Festival Award.
Noé is the husband of French filmmaker Lucile Hadzihalilovic.
Argentinean-Born
Childhood and Family:
On December 27, 1963, Gaspar Noé was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the
son of the renowned Argentine painter Luis Felipe Noé. Gasper achieved a degree
from the Louis Lumière National College. He is married to
director-writer-actress Lucile Hadzihalilovic (born May 7, 1961, in Lyon, Rhône,
France).
I Stand Alone
Career:
Argentinean-born French filmmaker Gaspar Noé made his first short film in 1985
called Tintarella di luna, where he also wrote and served as editor. His father
also acted in the film. He wrote and directed Pulpe amère, a six-minute short,
two years later and, after a four-year-hiatus, he attracted the attention of
public with the acclaimed short Carne, an introduction to the character of the
Butcher (played by Philippe Nahon), an angry man who searches for revenge on
whoever harm his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter (played by Blandine
Lenoir). The film won a SACD Best Short Award from the Cannes Film Festival and
a Prix Tournage France from the Avignon Film Festival, as well as receiving a
Fantasporto’s International Fantasy Film nomination for Best Film.
Noé then penned and directed Une expérience d'hypnose télévisuelle (1995, TV),
served as cinematographer in the award-winning drama film Bouche de Jean-Pierre,
La /Parental Guidance (1996), which was helmed and written by wife Lucile
Hadzihalilovic, voiced Jean-Marc in the French drama Rocher d’Acapulco, Le
(1996) and played the role of Le marchand de merguez casher/Stunned Bypasser in
the action/crime film Dobermann (1997). He was back to the director’s chair in
1998 when he helmed Philippe Nahon, Marc Barrow and Coralie in the 7-minute
short Sodomites.
It was also in 1998 that Noé eventually made the leap into motion picture. He
directed, penned and edited Seul contre tous (I Stand Alone), continuing the
story of the Butcher after he does time in prison and deserts his daughter, and
earned a number of recognitions for his work in the film. They are a Boston
Underground Film Festival for Best of Festival, a Mercedes-Benz from the Cannes
Film Festival, a FIPRESCI Prize from the Sarajevo Film Festival and a Sitges -
Catalonian International Film Festival for Best Screenplay. It also received
four nominations, including a Namur International Festival of French-Speaking
Film, a Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema and a Molodist
International Film Festival nominations for Best Film.
In 2002, Noé gained major public notice and infuriate with the controversial
Irréversible, especially because of the much-exposed eight-minute rape scene.
Starring real-life married couple Vincent Cassel and Monica Bellucci, the
crime/thriller is a cruel look at male violence shown in reverse chronological
order. Irréversible nabbed a Bronze Horse at the Stockholm Film Festival, as
well as a Cannes Film Festival nod for Golden Palm and a Bodil nomination for
Best Non-American Film.
Currently, Noé is working on the film 8 (2007), directing and writing segment “SIDA.”
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