Gaspar Noé, director of films such as 'Irreversible' and 'Love', arrives with a psychological and psychedelic horror, about a party with many young people, music, and a sangria spiked with LSD. The result is a true visual and sensual journey. We also have French actress Sofia Boutella, who has been making a name for herself in Hollywood, with 'Atomic Blonde' and 'Star Trek: Beyond' on her resume. It's clearly not a movie for everyone, but it will surely seduce those who want to dive headfirst into human excess.
This is possibly the most well-known movie of director Darren Aronofsky, and one of the most representative of early 21st century American cinema. Requiem for a Dream is an hallucinating, intense and claustrophobic journey through its characters' dreams and worst nightmares that will remain with you forever, and it's already a must in any cinephile's repertoire.
It is the first movie produced by Hollywood from director David Cronenberg, alias "the Baron of Blood," and it certainly delivers on spectacular special effects for its time. Despite being a box office flop, 'Invaders' (better known as 'Videodrome', its original title) was well received by critics, as it reflects on topics such as entertainment, technology, and the media. It remains surprisingly relevant even today, in the digital age of social media.
'Titane' is certainly one of the most provocative - and we can say, one of the strangest - films of the 2021/22 world cinema season. That's why it's not a feature film for everyone. Now, don't be fooled: all this is indeed a quality. Director Julia Ducournau (from 'Raw') builds a movie that traverses between terror, suspense and drama, surprising the viewer - whether with powerful imagery or with a complete change in the direction of the story. In this way, we have a film with a distorted, even disturbed vision, touching on themes such as hatred and disconnection from others, traumas, paternal love, motherhood, gender identity and fetishism - whether for the perfect body, for cars or even for fire. For all this, 'Titane' is one of those works that will make you reflect for a long time, without suffering from the ephemerality of more commercial productions. Highlight for the great presence of Vincent Lindon ('The Value of a Man'), one of the most recognized faces of current French cinema, and for the powerful performance of Agathe Rousselle, who, even debuting in a feature film, manages to traverse very well all the themes and changes of course of the script. Not surprisingly, it won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.