It is, for all intents and purposes, one of my favorite movies to watch. [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. His intro was quite funny, because he's not a grand intellectual, he's more of a sensualist. More than likely, you won't want to think about it at all. Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Oscar flies into the bodies of her lovers while she has sex with them, watching the act from their. If the following things disturb you, then you should probably avoid this film: strobe lights, drug use, shaky hand-held cameras, graphic sexuality, sperm, spinning cameras, psychedelic imagery, blood, gay sex, abortion, breastfeeding or a graphic auto wreck. French co-producers included No's company Les Cinmas de la Zone and the visual effects studio BUF Compagnie. It's a fairly simple story, but padded out to the extreme with "sequences" between each scene. All rights reserved. Then, this disappears as his spirit floats everywhere and anywhere: death as the ultimate out-of-body experience. Oscar tries to get rid of the drugs in the club's toilet but the flush doesn't work. Enter The Void - Official Trailer 2010 [HD] Nello Guida 875 subscribers 1.4M views 12 years ago THE ROMANTICS - Official Trailer [HD] The long-awaited follow up to his controversial IRREVERSIBLE,. [43][46] No says that none of the cut material is essential for the film. The, And if he is indeed reincarnated into Linda and Alex's baby at the end, he definitely has made good on his word. They were also used for simulation of neon flashes, and to add a tint of red to the dressing-room scenes. I love to be presented with. [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. Enter the void. We get the classic No tropes: throbbing ambient soundscape, murky lighting design bursting into unwatchable vortices of dazzling, flickering light, explicit sex and violence, colossal sans-serif lettering for the title- and end-credits. The story is pretty sad and tragic to be honest. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 2h 41min. [28], The 100-page screenplay detailed plot developments and many of the visual traits, but very little dialogue was scripted, so the actors were asked to improvise their lines. No really wanted him to compose the film's score, but, explains parts of The Tibetan Book of the Dead aloud to Oscar, who died in a car crash along with his father, spies on his parents while they're in the bedroom. It wanders through the city, his visions growing . Some exceptions were made. [10], No first tried to get the film funded in the early 2000s. [41], Enter the Void holds an approval rating of 72% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 94 English-language reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. I saw the NY premiere of the directors cut last night and all I can say is I was extremely disappointed. https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIE. He revisits in horrified anguish, primal scenes from his childhood, including the death of his parents in a car wreck, which has seeded in Oscar this obsessive closeness to his sister and a sexualised longing for his lost mother, which finds expression in an affair with an older woman in Tokyo. Enter the Void is losely based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a canon of scripture for Buddhists. His friend Alex (Cyril Roy) gives him The Tibetan Book of the Dead about the Buddhist belief in the afterlife. Enter The Void | Full Movie | Nathaniel Brown | Paz de la Huerta | Cyril Roy Carleton Labadie 1.62K subscribers Subscribe 956 Save 96K views 2 years ago Notice Age-restricted video (based on. When a young American drug dealer Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) inadvertently gets gunned down by trigger-happy policemen in downtown Tokyo, a concoction of drugs and sensory overload deliver an after-life experience like no other ever presented in cinema. [35], A 163-minute version of the film competed in the main competition of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. 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. I can also say that the first person POV usage reminds me of Jonas Akerlund's music video Smack my Bitch Up and the early scene is clearly a homage to Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2022 Preview. arrested by the police after the botched arrest of Alex, is disavowed by his contemporaries in the drug trade, has his apology rejected by Linda, gets thrown out of his own home by his parents, and is last seen giving blowjobs in a love hotel to get by. Now, while I was compelled (if not "entertained") by the near-pornographic subjectivity of Noe's "I Stand Alone" (the tale of a sociopath butcher wandering around France with a whole lot of pent-up anger) and "Irreversible" (a backwards-unraveling tale of revenge and rape), "Enter the Void" is an agonizingly overlong tale of death and the Afterlife that mistakes neon-saturated, drug-trip informed imagery as a profound comment on a world beyond our own mortality. Linda becomes pregnant, loses her job as a stripper, and has an abortion. Some of the overhead sequences took a full day to arrange and film. Flashback scenes were shot in Montreal over the course of four weeks the following spring, until 16 May 2008. 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. Enter the Void is a 2009 English-language experimental art film[8] written and directed by Gaspar No and starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, and Cyril Roy. I've seen this dreck before. [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. After his death, this falls silent and he sees the past partly impeded by the back of his own head. 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. 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. It has obvious debts, but Enter the Void is utterly original film-making, and No is a virtuoso of camera movement. [10], The idea for the film had been growing since No's adolescence, when he first became interested in matters of death and existence. Yes, the visuals are eye-popping and the ubiquitous stroboscope effects may cause severe nausea - I watched it on BR and couldn't help but thinking what an advantage home entertainment can be over cinema exposure. Roy was cast as Alex, since No found his talkative personality suitable for the role. https://www.youtube.com/@MOVIECE. The film is at least an hour to long and, especially in the latter half, at times ridiculously self-indulgent. "[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. Enter the Void. Good for the first 1/2 hour, then went downhill with pure indulgence Did they hear me? The city is never seen in daytime. Every scene in the film includes computer-generated imagery (CGI)even the flashback scenes, where the backdrops were digitally altered. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/EnterTheVoid. Enter the Void is an amazing film and a unique experience. Also, the film is almost completely in first-person viewpoint, so you're constantly feeling confined to what Oscar is looking at, which are mostly psychedelic images. 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. https://cineworldmovies.us/movie/34647WATCH FULL MOVIE! A boy sees his parents having sex with the man thrusting from behind, before it cutting to a shot of two people having sex in a club in the same position in a room, which a man briefly sees while walking by. Words can seriously not describe the visually rich and assaulting epic tale of death and its aftermath of memories and spiritual travel that is Gaspar No's Enter the Void. Unique storytelling. I haven't quite been able to shake it from my brain since! In "Enter the Void" the camera soars above the world like a bird, like a kite, like a ghost. Oscar's dead-man floating-eye view gives us a ringside seat at scenes of unending horror, violence, squalor and pain. The long-awaited follow up to his . I saw the trailer for the film last fall and was immediately intrigued, even without knowing much about the film. No discovered Fleisch through his 2007 film Energie!, for which the technique of animated sparks had been developed. What are the differences between the Short Version and the Long Version. Histhinking mind is represented by a whispered, paranoid soliloquy. Director Gaspar No Writers Gaspar No Lucile Hadzihalilovic Stars Nathaniel Brown Paz de la Huerta Cyril Roy See production, box office & company info Watch on AMC+ It's possible it was all just a dream Oscar is having as he dies. Maybe that explains the title, but it doesn't explain the running time. Enter the Void was primarily financed by Wild Bunch, while Fidlit Films led the actual production. [9] Tokyo was chosen because it could provide colourful environments required for the film's hallucinogenic aspects, and because Japan's repressive drug laws add to the drama, explaining the intensity of the main character's fear of the police. Soporific cinema. Product details Aspect Ratio : 2.35:1 Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated) Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.26 Ounces Item model number : IDFC1870BR Director : Gaspar No Then you start floating like a ghost, you can see anything happening around you, you can hear everything but you can't communicate. And the pause button is definitely a life-saver. [34] The German experimental filmmaker Thorsten Fleisch was hired to create the title logo. This unrelenting visual overdose hacks pleasurably at the viewer, as the tip of a nail does finding its destiny. By creating an account, you agree to the 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. 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 Most of the dialogue was improvised by the cast. [60] In France, it was launched on 30 prints and sold 51,126 tickets in total. 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. 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. Oscar's a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. No mentioned that he wanted it to feel like the time he watched the Lady in the Lake on mushrooms; I can't say I've ever done hallucinogens, but I can imagine the feeling would be similar to watching this work. A mess. 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