The surprises of Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle

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• Gaspar Noé directed Charlotte Gainsbourg for this medium-length film presented at Cannes in 2019.

• The Yves Saint Laurent house financed the film and left it complete freedom for this story of a shoot that goes wrong.

• Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle were able to improvise on the plot he gave them.

After the release of

on August 26, Gaspar Noé is back in theaters with

which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019. Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle play a role in this medium-length film co-produced by the Yves Saint Laurent house, whose actresses are the muses.

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"A shoot goes very badly and, at the end, the light becomes stroboscopic", such were the two only lines of the scenario written by Gaspar Noé.

Something to worry the actresses before embarking on the adventure.

“I wasn't worried because they were the right people,” says Gaspar Noé.

When you have the right people, parties go well and a movie is a party.

»Less focused on sex than

 or 

, Lux Æterna is nonetheless a multisensory experience.

Know nothing

The shooting described by

turns rather into a nightmare.

Béatrice Dalle, director overwhelmed by the demands of a first feature film and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a star, who does not make her job easier, plunge into madness by leading the viewer to it.

Five nights of shots were enough to put the film in a box with the support of director of photography Benoît Debie, the filmmaker's loyal collaborator.

“It was funny not knowing anything, confided Charlotte Gainsbourg at the Cannes press conference.

This gives more courage, more freedom because we do not really know what we are getting into.

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Be yourself

Gaspar Noé did not spare his interpreters.

For a superb sequence shot that opens the film, his indications were sketchy.

“When they asked me what to say, I told them that was their problem, that I had put the camera down and so my job was done,” he recalls.

The improvisation in which the actresses engage is breathtakingly natural as if they were caught in the middle of a real conversation.

“People are never better than being themselves in front of the camera,” says Gaspar Noé.

Stimulating and exciting

Its producers have left complete freedom to the filmmaker who has decided to edit his film in split-screen (divided screen) where several actions take place simultaneously.

"It is better to have a well-focused medium-length film than a traditional feature-length film, there are too many 'traditional' films today," he says.

This is indeed an adjective that would not be suitable for

, a film that stimulates the brain and exciting for the pupils.

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