A good movie

Since I have always been interested in Gaspar Noé's work, I was quite eager to check his last directing effort. Pretty much like some other directors like Michael Haneke or Lars Von Trier, Noé is a rather challenging director always delivering some really dark movies so I was ready to see again something hardcore and possibly even rather unpleasant. Eventually, it turned out to be provably his most accessible movie so far but, be warned, it was still far from being a feelgood flick though. Still, even though I really liked the concept, I think it could have been better developed though. Indeed, the first part with all these amazing dancing scenes was just really powerful and I was hoping that, when they would start drinking their LSD laced sangria, they would have some kind of burst of creativity and land in some fantastic world. In fact, to be honest, since it was directed by Gaspar Noé, I was expecting the whole thing to turn into some kind of explixit orgy at some point but there was after all eventually very little sex and mostly off screen. Instead, Noé decided that all the characters involved should have some kind of massive bad trip so the whole thing basically turned into a long and slow nightmare. I mean, it was not bad and well done and actually rather expected from this director but it was unfortunately never really spellbinding. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its limitations, it was another visceral experience coming from this director and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are interested in Gaspar Noé's work.

7/10