Highlights
Lux Æterna
Swiss Premiere
Gaspar Noé / France / 2019 / 51 min / Experimental
French / Subtitles English
French / Subtitles English
Saint Laurent produces Gaspar Noé for an evocation of witchcraft, like some Dreyer under LSD. With Lux Æterna, an ecstatic and crazy medium-length film, the author of Irréversible provides Charlotte Gainsbourg and Béatrice Dalle with a cult film worthy of their inflammatory filmographies.
This film was commissioned by brilliant Saint Laurent artistic director Anthony Vaccarello, inspired by Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages and Carl T. Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (Dies irae). It was shot over five days and improvised (“Have as much fun as you can!”) with fantastic, impeccable witches. Split screen, flicker and stroboscopy test the power of images on the viewer. An essay on epileptic cinema!
Direction
Gaspar Noé
Screenplay
Gaspar Noé
Image
Benoît Debie
Editing
Jerome Pesnel
Sound
Ken Yasumoto
Music
Pascal Mayer
Production
Saint Laurent (Clarajane Matteucci), Vixens (Alexane Guillot), Les films de la zone (Gaspar Noé)
With
Béatrice Dalle, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Félix Maritaud, Clara Deshayes, Abbey Lee
International sales
Wildbunch Distribution (Esther Devos)