Vortex
2021 · Movie · NR · 142 min · ★ 7.1 · 88% critics
An aging couple’s quiet routine begins to unravel as one partner’s memory fades and the other battles serious health problems. As daily tasks become harder, their home life turns into a tender, painful struggle to hold on to normalcy and to each other.
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Details
- Years
- 2021
- Release date
- 2021-10-16
- Language
- French
- Rated
- NR
- Runtime
- 142 min
- Critic score
- 88/100
- TMDB rating
- 7.1/10 (265 votes)
About
You may like this if you’re open to a slow, intimate drama about aging, illness, and everyday routines, with an unusual split-screen approach; Not for you if you want a plot-heavy, fast-moving story like Les Misérables.
Pros: emotionally affecting moments; intimate, realistic feel; unique split-screen view | Cons: very slow pace; minimal dialogue; loose ends
Themes
- dementia
- only child
- alzheimer's disease
- death
- death in family
- elderly couple
- elderly
- troubled past
- drug addict
- end of life
Cast & crew
Dario Argento
as Lui
Françoise Lebrun
as Elle
Alex Lutz
as Stéphane
Kamel Benchemekh
as Grocer
Corinne Bruand
as Claire
- NR
Nathalie Roubaud
as Junkie
Kylian Dheret
as Kiki
Philippe Rouyer
as Editorial Friend
Jean-Pierre Bouyxou
as Editorial Friend
Laurent Aknin
as Editorial Friend
Directed by Gaspar Noé