{"id":98877,"date":"2015-04-24T09:25:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T13:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=98877"},"modified":"2019-03-01T07:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T12:52:36","slug":"gaspar-noe-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=98877","title":{"rendered":"Gaspar No\u00e9 in 3D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple reasons why I love Gaspar No\u00e9:<\/p>\n<p>1. Because of the opening credits of <i>Enter the Void<\/i>. I would like to make out with those opening credits. The whole film is brilliant and hallucinatory and unlike anything else I have ever seen, but those opening credits!<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dL0lNGXoP8E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>2. Because of the way he is promoting his new movie <i>Love<\/i> (a love story in 3-D), which will be shown at Cannes in a midnight screening. One quote from him about the film: &#8220;With my next film I hope guys will have erections and girls will get wet.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>You know, I&#8217;m sure many film-makers feel that way, but who comes out and says it? Gaspar No\u00e9 does, that&#8217;s who. I can&#8217;t wait to see it.<\/p>\n<p>3. Have you read Kim Morgan on <a href=\"http:\/\/sunsetgun.typepad.com\/sunsetgun\/2012\/01\/stand-by-your-lhomme-i-stand-alone.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gaspar No\u00e9&#8217;s <i>I Stand Alone<\/i><\/a>? Among other things, she writes about people walking out of No\u00e9 films. His stuff is definitely not for the faint-hearted. I found <i>Irreversible<\/i> nearly unwatchable, and yet &#8230; I stuck it out. Terrified. His stuff is extremely confrontational. Morgan writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As my friend, writer Kent Adamson said, &#8220;The audience is as significant as No\u00e9&#8230; The walkouts are part of the drama, and the lesson in humanity.&#8221; Indeed. It&#8217;s always more interesting to watch No\u00e9 on the big screen, with an audience. I&#8217;ve seen all of his pictures in the theater and find the reactions fascinating; multi-layered. I wonder about the walk-outs because they can&#8217;t all be for the same reason. As in, people can&#8217;t all simply be offended. Something else is going on. When I first saw Irreversible I was frightened I wouldn&#8217;t be able to handle the swirling camera and low level police siren spiked soundtrack. Would it induce a panic attack? It was more upsetting to me than the famous moment with Ms. Bellucci and I was clinging to a xanax. And then, I just lost myself in it. And then I wondered if that was healthy. And then I wondered about wondering &#8212; what does &#8220;healthy&#8221; even mean? And on it went. That experience, as with all of his films, was disturbing, enlightening and mysterious. Just more of the many reasons I love No\u00e9&#8230; Anxiety can be good. You feel those nerve endings, your blood pumping. You feel alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple reasons why I love Gaspar No\u00e9: 1. Because of the opening credits of Enter the Void. I would like to make out with those opening credits. The whole film is brilliant and hallucinatory and unlike anything else I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=98877\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,4],"tags":[2206,2536],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98877"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98882,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98877\/revisions\/98882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}