Age: 62
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Gaspar Noé (born December 27, 1963) is an Argentine-Italian filmmaker who lives and works in France, where he has spent most of his life. The son of Argentine painter and intellectual Luis Felipe Noé, he graduated from Louis Lumière National College and is the visiting professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Three of his films feature the character of a nameless butcher played by Philippe Nahon: Carne, I Stand Alone and (in a cameo) Irréversible. Carne was the recipient of the Critic's Award at the 5th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in February 1994. The films of Stanley Kubrick are one source of inspiration for Noé, and he occasionally makes references to them in his own works. Noé also cites the 1983 Austrian serial killer film Angst, by Gerald Kargl, as a major influence. He is married to filmmaker Lucile Hadžihalilović. His work has been linked to the New French Extremity.
Noa is a young and vulnerable sex worker from South Korea who moves to an apartment complex in Madrid to start afresh. However, he soon discovers that the place has a dark side, with sadistic secrets and forbidden desires lurking within its walls. Despite initially seeming ordinary, the inhabitants reveal their predatory nature, and Noa becomes the object of their depraved obsessions due to his beauty and overt sexuality. He undergoes a series of harrowing experiences, including mutilation and torture, that blur the lines between pain and pleasure. These ordeals shatter Noa's psyche and sense of self as he tries to survive in a world where societal norms are defied. Noa is trapped in a world of perversion and violence and he's struggling to hold onto his humanity. He's haunted by his captors and his own desires, becoming a pawn in their game of dominance and submission. The film takes a dark turn, leaving Noa's survival uncertain. Will he escape and reveal the horrors of the apartment complex, or will he be lost forever to despair?
