Gaspar Noé persists and signs: he intends to make a film for children

“Or with young children,” explains the director of Vortex. “They are like little adults. When you are kids, you are in danger, exposed to everything.”

Invited to the Cairo film festival, Gaspar Noé gave a masterclass, then engaged in Variety on his desires as a director.

“The main genres that would interest me for a future film are documentary, war film and horror, explained the creator ofIrreversible, Love or even Vortex. Maybe I should try mixing all three? I would also like to make a film with young children, or a children’s film.”

A children’s film by the director specializing in shocking and experimental works? He details his idea:

“Kids are like little adults. When you’re kids, you’re in danger, exposed to everything. In life, I’m very attached to children, even if I didn’t have any myself. I I find that the relationship we form with a child is more direct, and full of play. I would like to make a film with little ones. They are linked to a certain fragility, and exposed to all kinds of dangers.

Gaspar Noé had already mentioned this idea in 2022, shortly after the design of Vortexa film which was conversely interested in elderly people:

“I have already made a film about the elderly with Vortex so the next one will be different. I would like to make a film with very young children, aged three to five, as main characters, with very little dialogue. I like films with children. I don’t have children myself but I can relate to them.”

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In this new interview, the Italian-Argentinian filmmaker also talks about the influence he himself felt at a very young age thanks to cinema, his mother loving to take him to see new films at the cinema.

“I remember the skeleton fight in Jason and the Argonautswhich I saw when I was four years old, and I have a vivid memory of 2001 A Space Odysseydiscovered at six. I didn’t even know what a fetus was, so I was asking questions, I asked him what that big thing was at the end of the film.”

A spiritual and aesthetic shock which deeply marked him, and from which he drew inspiration in his career as a director, notably for Enter the Void. “It’s a bit like my Kubrick film, yes”he replies, laughing. He also spoke about it in Firstwhen celebrating the 50th anniversary of sci-fi films, sharing Christopher Nolan’s idea that “this work should be shown to young children”. Noah was then formal: “Without 2001I would never have become a director”he confided to us.

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“I also remember going to see a Fassbinder retrospective with her when I was around ten years old, at the Buenos Aires Cinematheque. I didn’t know what a lesbian was and I found myself in front of films that talked about them, about their lives.”

Also asked about potential regrets, for example linked to the violence of a shocking sceneIrreversible who created the controversy, he replies:

“No, I don’t have any regrets about my films. On the other hand, there are a few ideas that I had in mind, projects, that don’t really excite me anymore today. It’s better to get started in a film when you’re all in. Sometimes ideas for cinema may no longer interest you as time goes on and the world evolves and your own life evolves. Then new ideas suddenly become stronger.

Like that of soon seeing a children’s film directed by Gaspar Noé, concludes Variety : “A gift that he would offer to the public and which could mark the most shocking turning point in his career.”

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