Drugs, again ?

Rating: 3/10 (7 February 2019)

I really hated this movie. I don't care about drugs, and this movie made me care even less.
This movie tries so hard to be politically incorrect, it's beyond depicable.
I love the IMDB game that occurs with these controversial movies :
People who appreciate will be like "don't listen to bad reviews" and vice-versa. Lol.
Hey, listen to what you want to listen. This is just my review, for God's sake.
What Gaspar Noé should understand is that filming people on drugs doesn't make either a story or a good movie.
Or maybe with less that 20 characters, like Blow or Fear and loathing in Las Vegas, or his own movie Enter the Void...
Why would spend time with characters if we won't follow them again ? Why filming 5 minutes of random people instead of creating good characters and follow them ?
Have you ever heard of character development ? Of course you did Noe, because Enter the Void is amazing, so what in the hell happened here ???
My 3 stars belong to the director of photography. The camera roams around the characters and gives a surreal, dreamy atmosphere which relates to the drugs.
It's the only interesting thing in this movie. Camera work.
Acting is hysterical and really tiring.
Structure is like this :
20mn dance
Some credits (???)
2-hours unwanted drug meltdown.
Fun fact : I wrote 2-hours but I just verified and it's actually 1h36. That's how boring it is !
And all of this interrupted by weird statements on black screens, which add nothing to the movie except satisfying artsy weirdos from cinema critique.
I like the esthetics of dance in cinema...but this one is grotesque. It lasts like 20mn and you will feel every one of them.
Basically we follow a dance club doing a party after a rehearsal. They like sex and drugs...like in every Noé movie. I liked to discover this kind of atmospheric cinema but the story is really getting old at this point.
It feels like Noe is really struggling to renew his work, and find new ideas.
Not only it's still about sex and drugs, but it's not even as good as the previous movies like Enter the Void.
This movie is too experimental to be a good story, and yet it's still a movie with a story and characters.
He should have done either a 100% experimental movie or not. This movie is an in-between, awkard attempt at being artsy enough to go to Cannes festival and still get enough production funds to be released worldwide.
There is no climax, at the end they just get to sleep after their psychotic drug effect, and police come. It's ridiculous.
If you want a Climax, go see Mother! with Jennifer Lawrence.