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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Having explored violence in Seul contre Tous (1998) and Irreversible (2002), Gaspar Noé employs 3D in his bid to depict "sentimental sexuality" in this teasingly semi-autobiographical, but decidedly underwhelming melodrama. He makes interesting use of space and texture, while achieving some neat blink transitions in the edit, but there's a 70s porno feel about a story involving an aspiring American film-maker (Karl Glusman) and his tangled liaisons with Electra (Aomi Muyock) and Omi (Klara Kristin), who are respectively the estranged love of his life and the mother of his child. The trio's struggle with improvised dialogue reinforces this impression, as Noé chronicles their ménage in a series of flashbacks after Electra goes missing over the festive period. But they commit entirely to the coital sequences in both bedrooms and sex clubs, photographed with a mix of prurience and sensitivity that scarcely improves upon the work of directors like Michael Winterbottom and Lars von Trier to capture unsimulated passion.

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Credits

Cast

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ElectraAomi Muyock
MurphyKarl Glusman
OmiKlara Kristin
GasparUgo Fox
JulioJuan Saavedra
NoeAaron Pages
NoraIsabelle Nicou
YuyoBenoît Debie
CastelVincent Maraval
PaulaDéborah Révy

Crew

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DirectorGaspar Noé

Details

Theatrical distributor
Curzon Artificial Eye
Released on
2015-11-20
Languages
English | Vietnamese | French
Guidance
Swearing, sex scenes
Available on
DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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