“I watch the Cannes awards ceremony because I relate more to the films that are competing in Cannes than the ones competing for the Oscars.”

Argentine filmmaker and screenwriter

Gaspar Noé, known professionally as Gaspar Noé, is an Argentine filmmaker and screenwriter who lives and works mainly in France. He is associated with New French Extremity and with films marked by graphic depictions of sex, drugs, epilepsy, and violence. His work is often discussed for its confrontational style and for the way it pushes extreme subject matter to the front of the frame. As a screenwriter and director, he has built a reputation around films that challenge viewers and make bodily experience, desire, and disturbance central themes.