(30 November, 2020 - 07:12 PM)KINGuNet Wrote: Show More
“It was my first hallucinogenic experience,” writes Noé of Kubrick’s masterwork, “my great artistic turning point and also the moment when my mother finally explained what a fetus was and how I came into the world. Without this film I would never have become a director.” It’s obvious the influence Kubrick has on the director, whose cinematic fetishes are all about sex, fetuses, wombs, birth canals and Oedipal longings.
The rest of his top 10 makes sense. Kenneth Anger’s macho, sexy, near-silent “Scorpio Rising” seems as good an entry-point as any into what the hell Noé was thinking when he came up with The Rectum, the bowels-of-hell BDSM bar that stages “Irreversible”‘s shocking violence. “Salo,” well, duh, informs Noé’s taste for torturing his audience; to see “Amour,” Michael Ha