This might just be the ultimate trip, as it takes in the tibetan book of the dead and alludes 2001 - a space odyssey to expand it's imagery in a metaphysical sense. I for sure have never seen anything quite like it, including one other Gaspar Noe movie Irreversible. Enter the void is a bit like Lost in translation, but goes so much deeper and bizarrely more realistic even, if you consider it not to be about Tokyo itself, but rather a set of values (or lack thereof) you can find there.
The pumping techno soundtrack, the acid visuals, the camera-work hand-held or steadycaming in inhumane ways, the shock and spectacle, only Gaspars previous movie Irreversible can prepare you for this, but then again not quite.
This is probably the best movie I will see this year and I will never forget it. That being said the last third is a bit dragging and Noe repeats his motifs almost ad nauseum here so I have to take away one star from top score. And sometimes you suspect him to be shocking just for the sake of it.
Noe does push the envelope one step further.
The pumping techno soundtrack, the acid visuals, the camera-work hand-held or steadycaming in inhumane ways, the shock and spectacle, only Gaspars previous movie Irreversible can prepare you for this, but then again not quite.
This is probably the best movie I will see this year and I will never forget it. That being said the last third is a bit dragging and Noe repeats his motifs almost ad nauseum here so I have to take away one star from top score. And sometimes you suspect him to be shocking just for the sake of it.
Noe does push the envelope one step further.