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VORTEX TBC

★★★★☆

OUT 13 MAY CINEMAS

From Gaspar Noé, the enfant terrible who asked us to endure numerous scenes of violent trauma in (2002) and (2018), comes… a film about a pair of pensioners shuffling around in slippers? Sedate and tender it may be, but is also the Argentinian director’s most confrontational film yet.

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