Gaspar Noé On Directing ‘Vortex’ And Dario Argento – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comVortex — which opened this weekend to a full house at NYC’s IFC Center — has an unusual star, Dario Argento.
Here’s how the film’s helmer Gaspar Noe convinced the iconic Italian horror movie director into his first lead acting role.“There were three reasons” he said yes, Noe told Deadline. “The first one, he said, because you are my friend and I like your movies.” [Noe has known Argento for 30 years and is friendly with his daughter, Asia Argento.] “The second and the third, because I told him that I would not given him any lines to learn.
That he could improvise his dialogue. He could invent his character all by himself. I said, ‘I’ll just handle the camera and the editing.
So you’ll direct your part, and I’ll direct my part.’” In fact, the screenplay he showed Argento was only ten pages long.Vortex follows an elderly couple in crisis.
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