Directors Adam Brooks and Matthew Kennedy, two of the five partners from the Canadian film production company Astron-6, have reunited from their 2011 effort...
Noe’s subjective camera spends much of the first half in the hands of Oscar, while we watch the world through his eyes, and the second half of the film overhead, racing through hundreds of rooms with masked cuts. It lends an incomparable theatricality to the experience.
Clearly good friends, their relationship in real life seems to reflect their relationship in the film. They are brother and sister, however, this is a Gaspar Noe film, so there’s always something a little off. Their very close relationship is mired by the tension of implied incestuous feelings throughout, even though those feelings are never consummated.