Gaspar Noé is an Argentine-French director born in Buenos Aires, celebrated and notorious for aggressively transgressive films that push cinematic technique and audience endurance to extremes. I Stand Alone established his confrontational style before Irreversible, structured in reverse chronological order and containing an extended, unbroken sequence depicting a brutal rape, became one of the most walked-out-on and debated films of its era. Enter the Void, a hallucinatory, largely first-person account of a drug dealer's death and astral wandering through Tokyo, showed his equally extreme formal ambition applied to hypnotic visual experimentation, while Climax, following a dance troupe's descent into chaos after their sangria is spiked with LSD, extended his fascination with bodies losing control set to relentless techno and disco. Noé's aggressive formal extremity and willingness to test audience tolerance have made him one of the most confrontational stylists in contemporary world cinema. Read more