Gaspar Noé: ‘As soon as people see a penis in the UK, they think they’ve seen the devil’ | Film
On 29 December 2019, following several days of Christmas indulgence, Gaspar Noé felt an odd sensation in his head. When the ambulance arrived, he was told he’d had a brain haemorrhage; later, the doctors said he had a 50% chance of dying, a 35% chance of surviving with brain lesions, and a 15% chance of escaping unharmed. “I thought: ‘I mustn’t die,’” he says, “‘because it’s not very nice for everyone else to have to sort out all my stuff.’ So maybe my film poster collection saved me: they might have thrown out my Fritz…