Love Gaspar | Noe Patched

You cannot write about loving Gaspar Noé without addressing the film that has his most vulnerable title: Love (3D).

Love Gaspar Noé (Even When It Hurts)

, at fifty, she goes to a retrospective. Noé is there, small, calm, chain-smoking outside the theater. She walks up to him. Her hands shake only a little. Love Gaspar Noe

To watch Gaspar Noé’s Love is to look into a funhouse mirror that is not distorting your face, but actually showing you the ugly, frantic, beautiful truth. It is the only romance film for people who have actually been in love and survived to tell the horror story. And that, paradoxically, makes it the most interesting—and perhaps the only honest—love story of the 21st century. You cannot write about loving Gaspar Noé without