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 PROJECTION FESTIVAL DE CANNES 2006 - SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE
"Mais la présence du film à Cannes doit beaucoup à la présence de Gaspar Noé au générique et à son de titre de parrain de la semaine de la critique. Clôturant cette compilation, son métrage s’inscrit directement dans le sillage d’Irréversible ou de son clip pour Placebo. Soit de longs plans séquences virevoltants pendant une demi-heure avec pour seul propos le parallèle entre une jeune fille innocente, une poupée gonflable maltraitée et Katsumi à la télévision. Rien de transcendant, juste une expérimentation de mise en scène de plus (la même ?) avec pour seule originalité, l’effet stroboscopique déjà utilisé à la fin d’Irréversible. Accolé à toute la durée du segment, il se révèle au final intéressant de par son couplage avec une sourde respiration et des pleurs d’enfant. Oui, c’est tout, et il nous refait le coup du « Temps détruit tout » avec « We Fuck Alone ». Note : 5/10"
( www.ecranlarge.com)
"Gaspar Noé reste dans le moule Irréversible avec son segment qui reprend quelques unes de ses figures connues (panneau annonçant que le film est proscrit aux épileptiques, effets stroboscopiques influencés par The Flicker, expérience unique où des photogrammes noir et blanc se succèdent, musique répétitive sur fond de cris d’enfants stressants) et acquiert sans peine le titre de cauchemar fantasmé où un homme clope à la main fait joujou avec une poupée gonflable qu’il personnifie en matant un porno (la demoiselle de ses rêves baise avec un nounours en peluche). Tout sauf excitant, le film cherche davantage à retranscrire l’extase, le malaise, le sexe dans l’état de frustration et au final vire au hors sujet et au trip poseur. Reste le talent formel (indéniable) du réalisateur dont on attend impatiemment le prochain Enter the Void."
( www.dvdrama.com/)
"Gaspar Noé, enfin, ferme ce ban avec We Fuck Alone, ou l'exotique séance stroboscopique d'une masturbation comparée : là une jeune fille se faisant du bien avec un gros nounours en peluche ; ici un jeune homme faisant de même avec une poupée gonflable. Musical et rigoureux, l'exercice pourrait bien être le meilleur du cinéaste."
( www.liberation.fr)
PROJECTION FESTIVAL DU FILM DE SUNDANCE 2006
"Gaspar Noe offers "We Fuck Alone," a strobing tribute to stroking, one scene with a man (and a doll) and another with a young girl (and her anthropomorphized teddy bear). Noe predicted beforehand that his film would send many heading for the door. And he was right. But I think more because of the late, late hour and the strobe's effect of putting viewers to sleep. In an irony, it took the girl about half the time to climax as the guy."( www.moviecitynews.com)
"DESTRICTED
Screened 1/20/06 at Library Theatre, Park City, UT
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1 (digital projection)
Destricted is as hit-and-miss as you'd expect of a collection of art-porn shorts directed by visual artists ranging from Gaspar Noé (Irreversible) and Larry Clark (Kids) to Richard Prince and Matthew Barney. The stand-outs for me were Marco Brambilla's "Sync" and Clark's "Impaled."
"Sync" edits together tiny snippets of sex scenes from what I presume must be dozens of different movies in an almost unrecognizable machine-gun style assault on the eyes. (I've got fast eyes and still couldn't identify a single one of the films that were used as source material.) The concept is audacious, but what's really funny about the piece is how it demonstrates the genericism of sex in the movies -- the clips are edited together in clusters that show couples in the same position, shot from the same camera angles, feigning exactly the same kind of middlebrow sexual ecstasy. The montage almost achieves a hilarous sexual energy of its own.
Meanwhile, "Impaled" is one of the best hardcore-porn flicks ever made, even before the fucking starts. Clark invites a bunch of young men to come audition in front of his cameras for the chance to perform in a short sex film. His interviews with them are undeniably salacious, with Clark forcing the audience to join him as voyeur as each up-and-comer is asked to remove his clothes as he speaks. But Clark's also interested in how their perception of the sex act, or at least the terms these guys use to describe it, have been shaped by lives led with easy access to pornography. Their hapless, remarks about shaved pubes or the value of busting a nut all over some chick's face smack of received machismo and got big laughs at the midnight screening, but the film isn't completely crass or condescending (although it is both of those things to some extent), and there's something oddly affecting about all these lost boys. What does it suggest that the kid Clark finally selects as his porn star picks a sex partner who's old enough to be his mother? I also liked Barney's contribution, a Cremaster-esque extravaganza that starts the show with a big black dick growing turgid, very slowly, in close-up, before seguing into a wild encounter between man and heavy machinery, with lots of natural lube involved.
Maybe it's the post-midnight time frame, but my interest flagged during the rest of the segments -- and I certainly didn't catch myself getting aroused. The most dominant recurring motif is guys jacking off, and it got to the point where, whenever some dude started stroking himself, I sighed to myself and sank deeper into my chair, wondering, "OK, how long are we going to have to watch before this guy manages to yank one out?" There's one about a guy jerking off in Death Valley, and one about Balkan folklore, and a couple of different ones about watching porn on TV -- including the capper, Gaspar Noé's "We Fuck Alone," which blends his trademark vertiginous camera work, simulated strobe lighting, and undulating low-frequency sound track (this time with the addition of screaming-baby noises) to no real effect. He admitted before the screening that it was shot a couple weeks ago and completed just a couple of days before the premiere, so I wasn't surprised by the slapdash nature of the finished picture. A cute girl made up to look young gets head from some stuffed animals, a guy with a Peter Murphy haircut jacks off as he pulls a gun on his blow-up doll, cue title card, ho-hum.
At the Q&A, someone asked why the film featured so much footage of the guy as compared to the girl, and Noé responded that he had better footage of the guy and, besides, he identified with the dude, not the lady. Bummer of a way to head out into the cold Sundance night."
( www.deep-focus.com)
""Destricted" ends not with a bang but a whimper: an intensely anti-erotic short by France's Gaspar Noé ("Irreversible") whose title can't be mentioned here, much less its contents. This one caused the audience to bail out in sizable numbers, but those who toughed it out were rewarded with a provocatively unpleasant essay on desire and loneliness."( www.boston.com)
"Something is very, very wrong when a movie (possible SPOILER ALERT: Bobcat Goldthwait’s Stay) that involves a woman admitting that she’d blown a dog doesn’t have a prayer to win the Sundance Special Jury Prize for the Heroic Depiction Of Deviant Sex Acts. Destricted, a “spicy compilation of shorts by visual artists who are reinvigorating erotic film” by Gaspar “Irreversible” Noe, Larry “Kids” Clarke, and Matthew “Cremaster” Barney, already has the competition locked up. What could be worse than the discussion of canine fellatio, you ask? The graphic depiction of bulldozer fucking, we answer. We found ourselves standing in the parking lot of the Library Theater as the movie’s premiere was letting out, watching people’s stunned faces and hearing some muttered reviews as they filed out (“Oh, that was horrible…” and “I feel totally provoked.”), but someone we knew coming out of the screening treated us to a pretty thorough description of the dozer-humping action. And all we haven’t erased from our memory banks in the interest of psychological self-preservation was his fear that during the intercourse, the actor’s “dick might get ripped off.” As the kids are fond of saying, good times.
Later, we heard a story from someone with knowledge of the bulldozer short’s production that the original actor (he was replaced, the tipster thought) had some problems getting aroused when faced with several tons of unsurprisingly unappealing earth-mover, so a fluffer was employed to help him get ready for his gear-schtupping scene. We suppose that coaching him to close his eyes and imagine he was nailing a forklift wouldn’t have gotten the job done."( www.defamer.com)
"In Destricted, there was sex, too, in the art. (It's funny to think of this, because Utah is a place where authorities are vigilant about the kinds of books that they allow into their libraries, and sometimes fierce about throwing "offensive" books out. Anything that could penetrate the human body was in action on the screen this time.)
With roots protruding from his body, an unidentified man gets intimate with machines - a truck, to be exact - in Hoist, Matthew Barney's contribution to Destricted, a group of short films by six directors doing independent pornography. Each film in Destricted, by such contributors as Sam Taylor-Wood, Richard Prince, Larry Clark, Marina Abramovic and Gaspar Noé, was offered as "cerebral" work that reinvigorates erotic cinema.
Make pornography, the filmmakers were told, "do anything you want, as long as you do it in less than 20 minutes," said Larry Clark, who pairs a novice would-be porn stallion with a forty-ish veteran in Impaled.
Clark's cast for his odd short was assembled from casting calls for male and female porn performers. The males, all first-timers, most of them younger than twenty, were experienced porn watchers (everyman a porn star?) and the women were all in the business, but also very young. Most of the young men not only watched porn, they got it from their parents. Clark, as we know, has a way of getting youth to be candid and compliant. Is it exploitation? You decide. It works once again as his interviewees talk about sex for money on the screen - the men talking about their particular sex preferences and ego needs, and the women talking more about the job as a job. The second half of Impaled is the coupling of Clark's Odd Couple, a pale skinny sullen kid of twenty and a giggling nympho twice his age. Not knowing whether the performers were in on the joke or not makes the joke even better.
The project renews Sundance's mission to push the boundaries of sex and gender in a pro-Bush state where some locals still practice polygamy and Brokeback Mountain was banned in a town nearby.
Sam Taylor-Wood chipped with Onan: Death Valley, failed self-stimulation in a majestic landscape. Destricted elicits the question, "Is pornography better if it's made, not by porn pros, but by artists, especially hot cross-over personalities like Barney and Sam Taylor-Wood?" Another inevitable question follows: "Is cinema better when those artists make it?""
(daily.greencine.com)
"well another day at old park city. lets see...whats been going on. last night i went to the Destricted screening. i said yesterday it was the film about sex. well it was a film about pornography. one of many options to comment on porn is to just show it. blue chip art folks were behind it. matthew barney, marina abramovic, gaspar noe, sam taylor-wood, marco brambilla and larry clark. marco brambilla montage of porn images over this snare drum type score was the highlight for sure. its funny... seeing the nuts and bolts of porn sure makes porn a lot less interesting slightly interesting. barney and clark also a plus. sam taylor-wood sure made masturbation look difficult. anyway we (crew of cinnamon , mad, alex, steph) went to the Destricted party late last night. lots of la tpyes being cool. taylor-woods is cool and stunning. best part was talking to timothy bottoms of Last Picture Show fame. sweet kat. anybody that talks about their wife more them themself is alright in my book."( http://journals.aol.com/kjeverson/SellingCinnamonSundance/)
"I had some time to kill before my next screening, the tableau or erotic films from arthouse directors I mentioned yesterday called Destricted, which was a public screening at the Park City Library. There's a long story here I could tell (I was the second-to-last person to get in; a jillion people wanted to see it), but won't, due to time constraints (it's probably boring anyway). Lucky for me, it was a very good film, easily the best one I had seen up to that point.
Larry Clark, whom I usually do not care for, had the best short in it, a doc where he casts a young-ish boy to have sex with a porn star, called "Impaled." Matthew Barney's film, Hoist, was also good, as were pretty much all of the films by the directors I wasn't familiar with, but oddly enough, Gaspar Noe's, We Fuck Alone, was probably the worst in the program. Still, he participated in the Q&A, and it was nice to see the most talented creep in the world handle the public (he seemed kind of shy)."
( www.playbackstl.com)
"Then I must try to scam my way into Destricted, a pervy omnibus movie that features new shorts by Larry Clark, Marina Ambramovic and Gaspar Noe. Apparently Matthew Barney makes love to a 50-ton truck. That’s worth missing the last bus to see."( www.eye.net)
"Destricted – An omnibus comprised of semi-shorts by Sam Taylor-Wood, Gaspar "So twisted Harmony Korine idolizes me" Noe, Marina Abramovic, Marco Brambilla, Larry "so twisted I invented Harmony Korine" Clark and Matthew Barney (that's Mr. Bjork to you), Destricted's mission is to liberate "erotic film" from the constraints of the mainstream and the stigma of porn. Segments feature a range of love objects from babysitters to monster trucks; as Clark's contribution (a seeming take-off on the mid-90s Calvin Klein ads his early photography inspired) seems like the most tame, this seems like a must-see for afficianados of cerebral smut."
( www.cinematical.com)
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