Enter the Void

3.00
    Enter the Void
    2009

    Synopsis

    This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

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    Cast

    • Paz de la HuertaLinda
    • Nathaniel BrownOscar
    • Cyril RoyAlex
    • Olly AlexanderVictor
    • Masato TannoMario
    • Ed SpearBruno
    • Emily Alyn LindYoung Linda
    • Jesse KuhnYoung Oscar
    • Nobuko ImaiTito
    • Sakiko FukuharaSaki

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Reader

      French director Gaspar Noe has kept a pretty low profile since his 2002 drama "Irreversible" notorious for its brutal nine-minute anal rape scene. But this epic, psychedelic mindfuck confirms him once again as the cinema's most imaginative nihilist.
    • 90

      Los Angeles Times

      Suffice to say, unrelenting material like this isn't for everybody. That it is a gloriously filmic gesture - by turns jaw-dropping, elusive, silly, obnoxious, painful and beautiful - is celebration enough.
    • 83

      The A.V. Club

      Enter The Void is a trance-like experience, feeding the shimmering neon of Tokyo at night into a spectacular hallucinogenic head-trip.
    • 80

      Time Out

      A strong contender for both the artiest drug movie and the druggiest art movie ever made, Gaspar Noé's tour de force of forced perspectives and free-form grief is, in every sense of the word, a trip.
    • 80

      Movieline

      A picture that's by turns inventive, tender and boring, and one that uses a variety of novelty point-of-view techniques: If Penisvision isn't your thing, then Vagin-o-rama just might float your boat.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      A mash-up of the sacred, the profane, and the brain-dead, Enter the Void is addictive.
    • 70

      NPR

      Confrontational and hyperactive, Enter the Void is a difficult film to experience. That's not because Noe is somehow inept. The Argentina-born French writer-director knows exactly what he's doing and what effect his swirling camera, exuberant colors and strobelike effects will have.
    • 40

      Boxoffice Magazine

      Enter the Void was never going to be another "Avatar." It won't be another "Irreversible" either.

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