Chicago – “Dying would be the ultimate trip.” This line is uttered early on in “Enter the Void,” the extraordinary new film from Gaspar Noé, a director who enjoys referencing his previous work almost as much as his hero, Stanley Kubrick. This line pays subtle homage to the “2001: A Space Odyssey” poster prominently framed toward the end of Noé’s previous film, “Irreversible.”
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Just as Kubrick delivered on his promise to present moviegoers with the “ultimate trip,” Noé seems to be making a similar promise with this wildly ambitious feature, which he defines as a “psychedelic melodrama.” Yet while many audience members took assorted drugs to enhance their moviegoing experience during the initial release of “2001,” Noé aims to viscerally convey the sensation of a drug-induced high, allowing viewers to fully lose themselves within the world of his central character. “Void” comes as close any picture in the history of...
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Just as Kubrick delivered on his promise to present moviegoers with the “ultimate trip,” Noé seems to be making a similar promise with this wildly ambitious feature, which he defines as a “psychedelic melodrama.” Yet while many audience members took assorted drugs to enhance their moviegoing experience during the initial release of “2001,” Noé aims to viscerally convey the sensation of a drug-induced high, allowing viewers to fully lose themselves within the world of his central character. “Void” comes as close any picture in the history of...
- 9/24/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – Few films have conveyed the sensation of an out-of-body experience quite like “Enter the Void,” the latest feature from French filmmaker Gaspar Noé, who continues to be one of the most controversial and innovative filmmakers in modern cinema. When his characters get high, their souls float through space, an experience skillfully depicted by Noé, despite the fact that he’s never experienced it himself.
“I’ve tried for many years to have an out-of-body experience and I’ve never managed to have any,” Noé admits.
The son of an Argentine painter, Noé first gained notoriety with his 1991 short, “Carne,” which was later followed by two features that garnered equal amounts of acclaim and outrage at international festivals. “I Stand Alone” (1998) and “Irreversible” (2002) confronted deeply disturbing subject matter with an almost animalistic intensity, while allowing audiences to reflect on the repercussions of their epically intimate tragedies. Noé’s nihilistic worldview is apparent throughout his work,...
“I’ve tried for many years to have an out-of-body experience and I’ve never managed to have any,” Noé admits.
The son of an Argentine painter, Noé first gained notoriety with his 1991 short, “Carne,” which was later followed by two features that garnered equal amounts of acclaim and outrage at international festivals. “I Stand Alone” (1998) and “Irreversible” (2002) confronted deeply disturbing subject matter with an almost animalistic intensity, while allowing audiences to reflect on the repercussions of their epically intimate tragedies. Noé’s nihilistic worldview is apparent throughout his work,...
- 9/22/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Collider have obtained the first Us trailer for Enter the Void, Gasper Noe’s long-awaited follow-up to the controversial Irreversible.
Enter the Void opened at Cannes last year, where it was met with mixed reviews from critics and festival-goers, and it now receiving a limited Us release, courtesy of IFC Films.
The full synopsis for Enter the Void is below:
Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar’s a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister that he would never abandon her refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.
Enter the Void stars Nathaniel Brown,...
Enter the Void opened at Cannes last year, where it was met with mixed reviews from critics and festival-goers, and it now receiving a limited Us release, courtesy of IFC Films.
The full synopsis for Enter the Void is below:
Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar’s a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister that he would never abandon her refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.
Enter the Void stars Nathaniel Brown,...
- 8/10/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
IFC have revealed the official Us poster for Gasper Noe’s long-delayed film, Enter the Void. The film, Noe’s follow-up to the hugely controversial Irréversible, stars Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn, Olly Alexander, Masato Tanno, Ed Spear and Sara Stockbridge.
Synopsis: Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar’s a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister that he would never abandon her refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.
Enter the Void was initially screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, with IFC finally...
Synopsis: Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar’s a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister that he would never abandon her refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.
Enter the Void was initially screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2009, with IFC finally...
- 7/31/2010
- by Jamie Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Once in awhile something brilliant comes by then brightens up the day and that is the case for this Enter the Void trailer from director Gaspar Noe. The film has been described by Quiet Earth as focusing on "an emotional depth and attention to characters," and in this beautiful clip the highs and lows of inner city drug life is visually told as the trailer unfolds without cluttering narration. This clip is gritty, brutal, and truly exceptional all in one breath. Take a time out from a busy workday or similar and enjoy a quick look at quality filmmaking courtesy of Noe and Quiet Earth.
The synopsis for Enter the Void here:
"Enter the Void is about a young man who, after the brutal death of his parents, promises that he will protect his little sister no matter what and who, sensing that he himself is dying, fights desperately to keep his promise.
The synopsis for Enter the Void here:
"Enter the Void is about a young man who, after the brutal death of his parents, promises that he will protect his little sister no matter what and who, sensing that he himself is dying, fights desperately to keep his promise.
- 4/16/2010
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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