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Born in Argentina and an honorary Frenchman since his family moved there in 1976, director Gaspar Noé is the Cannes film festival's artist-in-residence, bringing all of his features to the event since his 1998 debut Seul contre tous (AKA I Stand Alone). Noé's films always provoke a strong reaction—many festivalgoers…

"It would be better if I were dead," the old lady laments to her even older husband in Gaspar Noé's startling new film Vortex, and he makes no effort to disagree. Even though its title might have worked just fine for one of the perennially youth-obsessed director's previous films, here it serves as an indicator of…