Has Gaspar Noé, 60, softened up with age?
Noé’s last film was 2021’s “Vortex,” and around that time he’d already been hinting at making a film about, of all things, preschoolers.
Noé is now doubling down in his intentions to make a children’s film. Speaking with Variety, he’s telling us to expect the unexpected when it comes to his next project, saying that he’d “like to do a movie with young children, or a movie for children.”
“I’ve already done a movie about old age with ‘Vortex’ so the next one is going to be different. I’d like to make a film where the main characters are very young kids, aged between three to five years old, with very little dialogue. I like movies with kids. I don’t have kids myself, but I relate to them.”
He does go on to state that another option could be involve a harrowing mix of documentary, war and horror, which makes way more sense given his past films. Alas, it doesn’t sound like Noé has really made up his mind yet, but a film about young tykes seems to be something that’s been on his mind.
Noé is a major fan of Bruno Dumont’s “Lil Quinquin,” which also inspired Sean Baker to make “The Florida Project” — maybe Quinquin’s influence has now crept up into Noé‘s creative conscience as well.
This would obviously be a departure for Noé who is known as the master provocateur behind such shocking films as “Irreversible,” “Enter the Void” and “Climax.” In “Vortex,” he tackled an elderly couple and the final days before their deaths. Noé loves grim storytelling, and a “movie for children” would definitely be out of the ordinary for him.
It can be revealed that the title for the sequel will be “The New Simpsons Movie.” OK. The poster was unveiled at D23, with Homer standing next to a bush, which seems to lean hard into the viral meme.