Everyone’s favorite French/Argentinian enfante terrible Gaspar Noé’s next film, “Vortex” opens May 6 via Utopia Films. But the controversial filmmaker is staying super busy and is releasing another film this year, “Lux Æterna,” an experimental art film making heavy use of epileptic imagery, split-screen, and 1920s-style film involving witchcraft. “Lux Æterna,” made its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and it’s 51 minutes long.
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The film stars Béatrice Dalle (“Betty Blue,” Jim Jarmusch‘s “Night on Earth,” Claire Denis’ “Trouble Every Day”) and Charlotte Gainsbourg it’s a metafictional psychological drama with the actresses playing fictional versions of themselves making a film about witches.
Our review from Cannes in 2019 wrote at the time, “Those prone to epilepsy should be particularly wary: As the film set descends further and further into pandemonium, DP Benoit Debie casts these characters in glaring monotone, then blinding, multi-colored strobe.” So yes, expect yet another psychedelic Noé movie.
Here’s the official short synopsis:
Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg are on a film set telling stories about witches. Technical problems and psychotic outbreaks gradually plunge the shoot into chaos.
Written and directed byGaspar Noé (also known for “Enter the Void,” “Climax,” “Irreversible,” and the aforementioned “Vortex”), the film also co-stars Abbey Lee (“The Neon Demon”), Karl Glusman (Noé’s “Love”), Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull (“Climax” ) & Félix Maritaud (“Sauvage” / “Wild, Knife + Heart”).
Producers on the film include Anthony Vaccarello & Saint Laurent, Gary Farkas, Clément Lepoutre, and Olivier Muller for Vixens, Gaspar Noé and Lucile Hadzihalilovic for Les Cinémas de la Zone
Yellow Veil Pictures is the U.S. distributor and “Lux Æterna,” opens in New York on May 6 at Metrograph and LA on May 13, with a national rollout to follow. Watch the first trailer below.