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New French Extremity describes a range of French transgressive films made at the turn of the 21st century that sparked controversy, and provoked significant debate and discussion. They were notable for including graphic images of violence, especially sexual violence and rape, as well as explicit sexual imagery.
Bertrand Bonello (French: [bɛʁtʁɑ̃ bɔnɛlo]; born 11 September 1968) is a French film director, screenwriter, producer, composer and actor. His work has been associated with the New French Extremity. [2]
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Gaspar Noé (Spanish: [gasˈpaɾ noˈe], French: [ɡaspaʁ nɔ.e], born 27 December 1963) is an Argentine-Italian filmmaker, who lives and worked primarily in France. [1] He is one of the primary exponents of New French Extremity, with his most notable works including the feature films I Stand Alone (1998), Irréversible (2002), Enter the Void (2009), Love (2015), Climax (2018), Lux Æterna ...
In a more pejorative vein, James Quandt has also talked of some of this group of filmmakers, as the so-called New French Extremity. [6] His 2011 film Hors Satan premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. [7] [8] His 2013 film Camille Claudel 1915 premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film ...
In the 2000s, a movement of transgressive films in France known as "New French Extremity" has been described as an arthouse horror film movement. [ 6 ] Although commentators have suggested some horror films have exemplified qualities applicable to "art horror" for many decades, the term became more widely used during the 2010s, with independent ...
Although Quandt coined the term New French Extremity, he quickly acknowledged this was a mistake, and most writing since (e.g. by Horeck & Kendall, Mattias Frey, Asbjørn Grønstad, and others see it as existing far beyond France (think of The Idiots, A Hole in my Heart, A Serbian Film, Taxidermia, etc.)
In My Skin (French: Dans ma peau) is a 2002 New French Extremity horror film written by, directed by, and starring Marina de Van.It details the downward mental spiral of Esther, a woman (played by de Van) who engages in increasingly destructive acts of self-mutilation following an accident that injures her leg at a party.