Brutal Intimacy: Gaspar Noé and the Controversiality of New French Extremism Films
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2024-04-15
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This thesis investigates what makes the French-Argentinian director Gaspar Noé’s films controversial. His films belong to the New French Extremity movement, which are transgressive in nature. This work will focus on three of the movement’s films in particular, namely Noé’s Seul Contre Tous (1998), Irréversible (2002), and Love (2015). Through a descriptive analysis of the movement’s history and the films’ receptions, as well as through a close reading of the form of the film’s transgressive scenes, the main research question is answered. It shows that what makes these films so controversial, is their tenable realism, pushing up against people’s expectations of art; confronting them with the horrors of their reality.
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