“When your brain and body stop working, it turns into hell. Death is at that point desired. It's the best thing that can happen.”

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.