She thought that the characters lacked emotional depth and called the story "a lame fusion of stoner lifestyle, sexual fetish, and philosophical inquiry", but still ended the review: "I could stare at this movie for days and not get tired of the sensation. While the review was largely negative, the author was still impressed by the visual depiction of the Japanese capital: "Visually, much of the film is stunning and the art design by Marc Caro (Delicatessen) takes Tokyo's love of neon gaudiness to a surreal extreme". At two and a half hours long, this film is definitely not for everyone. Eurimages, So he uses his hands to push the pills down the drain. https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECE. In some countries, the theatrical release was shortened by omitting reel 7 of 9. "[18] Due to a desire that Linda and Oscar should be believable as siblings, Nathaniel Brown, a non-professional, was cast because of his resemblance to Huerta. So this is a movie I think he's wanted to make for a very long time, perhaps a couple of decades, but only now has he been able to get the freedom and funding to do it. I saw the NY premiere of the directors cut last night and all I can say is I was extremely disappointed. I've seen this dreck before. See production, box office & company info, Ambitious, deeply mystic and provocative movie with earth-shattering FX, Durch die Nacht mit: Harmony Korine und Gaspar No. Order on Blu-ray: https://bit.ly/3JXpVmy Eight years after the controversial and shocking Irreversible, director Gaspar No cemented his reputation as the e. I must choose more wisely what to see this one was unbearable. And then it just didn't follow through with it. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Pas: Francia Director: Gaspar No Guin: Gaspar No Msica: Thomas Bangalter Fotografa: Benot Debie Reparto: Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn, Masato Tanno, Olly Alexander, Sara Stockbridge, Jessica De Marco It is, for all intents and purposes, one of my favorite movies to watch. Take a wild stab at which one this movie is. English & Japanese with English subtitles. [61] Producer Brahim Chioua said that the film had been difficult to sell abroad for a reasonable price due to the late-2000s financial crisis. The film is shot from a first-person viewpoint, which often floats above the city streets, and occasionally features Oscar staring over his own shoulder as he recalls moments from his past. Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, you see [Oscar] waking up at the morgue and he thinks he's alive but he's not, and then the camera goes down the plughole where she's tipping his ashes. Now we get a film that both chronicles that rebirth and is the product of it. It was considered too expensive and the producers dropped out. Les Cinmas de la Zone, I tried, guys, I promise. Filmarto, His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection. Linda wishes she had gotten involved with Alex instead of Mario as Oscar wanted. [18], The crew filmed in Tokyo from 19 October to 15 December 2007. Definito dallo stesso regista un melodramma psichedelico, [2] nel cast ci sono Nathaniel Brown al suo debutto, Paz de la Huerta e Cyril Roy , anch'egli nel suo primo ruolo cinematografico. Cyril Roy went to an audition with a friend only because he wanted to talk with the director, whose previous films he admired. We are given characters and are exposed to their darkest moments, but are never given a real reason to care for them, or to perceive them as anything but wretched. Where to start? Filmarto, [10], The idea for the film had been growing since No's adolescence, when he first became interested in matters of death and existence. However, when Victor accuses Linda of complicity in her brother's death, she angrily chases Victor away, demanding that he kill himself. As the officers kick in the door, Oscar bluffs that he is armed, but he is fatally shot through the door. Enter The Void is an event that happens every year featuring many underground artists, musicians, labels, influencers and more. No discovered Fleisch through his 2007 film Energie!, for which the technique of animated sparks had been developed. [13] The director also leaves open the possibility that Oscar's life starts over again in an endless loop, due to the human brain's perception of time. Astounding and infuriating all at the same time! I think the art is beautiful, I really enjoyed the beginning and had high hopes. They were also used for simulation of neon flashes, and to add a tint of red to the dressing-room scenes. To recommend this film to audiences is perhaps a wrong turn, as it is bound to strike most as indulgent, immoral, needlessly vulgar and uncomfortable (particularly in Oscar's tendency to watch his sister having sex whenever possible). Linda immediately wakes up, saying she had "another dream" about Oscar being alive. In those scenes, the camera was held by Debie. Most of the film takes place in Oscar's first-person perspective, with flashbacks to his and Linda's past taking place from an outside perspective. Some of the overhead sequences took a full day to arrange and film. [42] Trinity Filmed Entertainment was the British distributor. "Enter the Void" revels in death right away by treating it like a breath of fresh air in a world hogtied by plastic. Oscar moves among hotel rooms and observes several other couples having sex in various positions. A really really long mess. Peter Bradshaw included the film in The Guardian's top 50 films of the decade so far,[54] and gave it five stars out of five. [23] For shots from high altitudes, the team started with helicopter footage from video, and then created computer models of the neighbourhoods with textures from photographs. This is a grandiose hallucinatory journey into, and out of, hell: drugged, neon-lit and with a fully realised nightmare-porn aesthetic that has to be seen to be believed. [24] No's favourite film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, was the most prominent influence among mainstream films; No wanted to become a filmmaker after he saw it at the age of seven. Enter the Void was a long-time passion project for No, synthesizing a number of things he had grown fascinated by in his early life themes of death, existence and the afterlife alongside aesthetics of psychedelia and surrealism. Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. French co-producers included No's company Les Cinmas de la Zone and the visual effects studio BUF Compagnie. A decent enough metaphor is that cinema overdosed on introspective drugs. BUF, Orange Cinma Sries, Enter the Void is a 2009 fantasy film written and directed by Gaspar No and starring Nathaniel Brown , Paz de la Huerta and Cyril Roy. [40] The Japanese release followed ten days later. [37], When it was released in France, it used the English title. Did I scream? Like sighs from a scythe in a wheat field of psychosis, the opening title sequence for Gaspar No's Enter the Void is a melting onslaught of typographic design foisted upon the senses. Flickers were created through a mixture of motion blur, chromatic aberration, and focus effects. Enter the Void is an amazing film and a unique experience. No feared that a professional actor would be frustrated by being shown almost exclusively from behind, but he felt that Brown, an aspiring director, would find it stimulating to merely be present on the set. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. Coming Soon, Regal Ministre de la Culture et de la Communication, A fantasy psychological drama set in the neon-lit nightclub environments of Tokyo, the story follows Oscar, a young American drug dealer who gets fatally shot by the police, but continues to watch subsequent events during an out-of-body experience. The lives of Oscar and Linda are presented in short non-chronological flashbacks; in the midst of a happy childhood, their parents were killed in a violent car crash. Roy was cast as Alex, since No found his talkative personality suitable for the role. As Oscar drifts out of his body we view the world through his mind's eye in a collage of flashbacks, flash-forwards and overall time anachronism that would make Terence Mallick green with envy. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7.2 stars out of 10. I attended the International Premiere of "Enter the Void" at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Copyright Fandango. The critical response was sharply divided: positive reviews described the film as captivating and innovative, while negative reviews called it tedious and puerile. Oscar escapes into a bathroom stall and vainly attempts to flush the drugs. Enter the Void es una pelcula dirigida por Gaspar No con Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta. Vincent Maraval, "In 2010, no other filmmaker [in France] than Gaspar No can shoot with such mastery, nor draw us into a vortex of sensations as vertiginous. Canal+, From there, his death and afterlife mirrors the philosophies behind the Tibetan Book of the Dead which theorises (I'm sure I'm putting this very crudely) that one's soul floats around, watching the world without them until they figure out how to leave their old life behind and move on. Photograph: c.Everett Collection / Rex Features. One evening, after Linda has left for work, Oscar indulges in an hallucinogenic trip until his friend Victor (Olly Alexander) summons him to a drug deal at "The Void" bar. https://moviedent.online/movie/tt1191111WATCH MORE FREE MOVIES! It's possible it was all just a dream Oscar is having as he dies. [41], Distribution rights for the United States were picked up at Sundance by IFC Films. But that doesn't last for long, because poor Oscar gets betrayed by a friend and ambushed by the police. What are the differences between the Short Version and the Long Version. Then you see lights, lights of all different colours, these lights are the doors that pull you into other planes of existence, but most people actually like this world so much, that they don't want to be taken away, so the whole thing turns into a bad trip, and the only way out is to get reincarnated. An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. 2 hr 30 mins. NR. Since development went slowly at Path, No chose to not renew his contract with the studio and accepted Wild Bunch's offer. Synopsis. Enter the Void was primarily financed by Wild Bunch, while Fidlit Films led the actual production. Jan 25, 2011, Box Office (Gross USA): As for the overhead visions of violence and claustrophobic horror, they are clearly influenced by the climactic sequence of Scorsese's Taxi Driver. [18] At the Cannes premiere, the film had alternatively been listed with the French title Soudain le vide, which means "Suddenly the void". No had written and directed Irrversible for StudioCanal, and it was sold internationally by their subsidiary, Wild Bunch. To me, the difference between "Art" and "Crap" is that one takes skill and mastery of a medium, the other takes a gimmick. Documentary, Enter the Void, Gaspar Noe, Nathani, Paz De La Huerta, Summer 2010. The top-down camera shots are an homage to, The ambient score of the film was assembled from existing music and sound sources collected by. No is a genius of some kind, always on the fringes of the industry, appalling some, disgusting others, and written off by the rest, yet I can't genuinely say I'd recommend anyone seeing this movie. Linda found work as a stripper for the nightclub owner Mario. Yes, 'Enter the Void' is definitely a trippy mindbuster, and as such anyone who requires story or frames to enjoy a film should give it a miss. Twice. [25] Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes and other films which feature hovering overhead shots inspired No to make a film largely from such a perspective. In "Enter the Void" the camera soars above the world like a bird, like a kite, like a ghost. The story is pretty sad and tragic to be honest. We are also shown some sexually discomforting things that we never really wanted to see on the silver screen (if you've seen it you probably know what I'm talking about). But despite its querulous melodrama and crazed Freudian pedantries, it has a human purpose the previous film lacked, and its sheer deranged brilliance is magnificent. On one occasion, Linda wishes that Oscar would come back to life; Oscar then enters Linda's head and experiences her dream in which he wakes up at the morgue, from which his body is taken to be cremated. [21] One reference used was the works of biologist Ernst Haeckel, whose drawings influenced the organic patterns seen during Oscar's visions. 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