Enter The Void

[capncnut]

http://www.leelibros.com/biblioteca/files/images/enter%20the%20void.jpg

Argentinian director Gaspar Noe is getting ready to film his latest movie "Enter The Void" which will be his first since 2002's "Irreversible".


Gaspar Noé is currently developing a new feature, tentatively titled Enter the Void, backed by the producers of Run Lola Run. Enter The Void is a chaotic street drama about directionless Japanese youth, getting high, getting crazy, getting numb and disconnected. According to producers, it will feature groundbreaking new special effects. At the time of this writing, he is spending time in Japan, where the film will be shot, scouting locations and getting more in tune with his material.

Noe says: "If it's good, it could be like Inauguration of the Pleasuredome (by Kenneth Anger) - I've seen it ten, fifteen, twenty times and never got bored. You just feel like you're stoned. My purpose is to make a movie with a normal narrative but as the characters get stoned, you get stoned, and you don't come back. It's structured like 2001 or Videodrome. It's going to be very visual. People won't guess that I directed it. That's what I like about Kubrick - you see Lolita, 2001 and The Shining - how can you tell it's the same director?"

Edit 2009: For all those not in the Noe (geddit :lol:), here's the teaser trailer.

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[Danny]

y'know im probably the only film student ever thats not seen run lola run.

watched irreersible in my first year at college, not my preffered topic of viewing, though the director had a unique style, plus it got a few people to run out puking, which ,if your immature like me, is worth the price of admission, so to speak, cus i aint never seen people react like that before, though i have a strong stomach so maybe if i was a little looser i woulda puked me'self.

[capncnut]

I saw "Irreversible" in London and about a third of the audience left during the fire extinguisher sequence. It was great, there were actually people crying and that was way before Bellucci's 15 minute fixed camera rape scene. :eek:

For me though, it's the film making that does it for me. It's so original and it has an energy that I've not seen in a movie for a long time. The whole "Rectum"* sequence was mindblowing. A flawless vision of hell. Kinda like a gay nightclub meets alternate Silent Hill. Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk provided an awesome soundtrack also.

* Btw folks, "Rectum" is the name of a nightclub in "Irreversible" and not a sequence involving an actual rectum. :lol:

[Danny]

I saw "Irreversible" in London and about a third of the audience left during the fire extinguisher sequence. It was great, there were actually people crying and that was way before Bellucci's 15 minute fixed camera rape scene. :eek:

For me though, it's the film making that does it for me. It's so original and it has an energy that I've not seen in a movie for a long time. The whole "Rectum"* sequence was mindblowing. A flawless vision of hell. Kinda like a gay nightclub meets alternate Silent Hill. Thomas Bangalter of Daft Punk provided an awesome soundtrack also.

* Btw folks, "Rectum" is the name of a nightclub in "Irreversible" and not a sequence involving an actual rectum. :lol:


oh that'd be the appleby, my cousin goes there all the time.:lol:

(semi private joke i should point out the applebuy is a gay bar for bikers)

[capncnut]

Righty ho, major thread necromancy.

The film is finished and has been doing the festival rounds this year. It got a standing ovation at Cannes where it was nominated for the Golden Palm. Here's a little review I found from the TIFF website:


Gaspar Noé won the Palme D'Or of my heart with this 160+ minute mind-bender. Enter the Void is more of an experimental, avant-garde journey through a DayGlo heart of darkness than it is a traditional narrative. After the punishing violence of both Seul Contre Tous and Irréversible, Noé switches gears completely and attempts to intimately capture the internal, hallucinatory experience of a young man's death.

After years of living apart in foster homes, American brother and sister Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) and Linda (Paz De La Huerta) are reunited in Tokyo, where he's a low level drug dealer and she a budding stripper. The film starts out literally inside Oscar's head, registering each blink of his eyes as a momentary black screen, and showing us first hand the DMT trip he's on, which Noé depicts as a series of unfolding, expanding brilliantly-coloured spirals, fractals and delicate tendrils (a bit reminiscent of a constantly mutating science class diagram of the parts of a cell).

Soon enough, a drug deal goes terribly awry and Oscar finds himself dead on the grimy floor of a nightclub bathroom. The fact of his death doesn't change the film's point of view, it merely shifts the camera's position - rather than viewing the world from inside Oscar's head, we now have two new perspectives. When Oscar remembers Linda, their childhood and the horrific accident that claimed their parents' lives, the memories unfold with the camera hovering behind Oscar, imbuing the scenes with a voyeuristic quality, as we're forced to peek over his shoulder in order to see what's happening. Meanwhile, newly-dead Oscar floats above the action, hovering and tumbling above and around characters and buildings, giving a disorienting birds-eye view of neon-soaked Tokyo by night.

Tracking backward and forward in time and seamlessly moving in and out of narrative and visual experimentation as Oscar slowly comes to terms with his situation, Enter the Void uses rhythmic shooting techniques, strobing visuals, complex soundscapes and ambitious CGI to create a truly hypnotic atmosphere. Psychedelic drug trips, explicit sex, intense violence (and even a graphic abortion sequence) are intertwined with abstract montages of colour and light. Fans of Noé's stark brutality might be disappointed by Enter the Void's decidedly contemplative nature, but he's undeniably taking creative risks here that are as extreme as any he's taken before.

The film is an astonishingly original exploration of life, death and sexuality, and Noé is the Siren of Greek mythology, seductively mooring the viewer on the rocks of his bizarre vision, from which there is no escape. Love it or hate it, Enter the Void was the wildest, headiest trip in Cannes.

Being a serious fan of Noé's work, I am rubbing myself frantically to see this. Theatrical screenings will be limited so a early 2010 DVD release is more than likely on the cards.

[AcesandEights]

Thanks for the reminder on this, Capn. I'll definitely try and keep it at the back of my mind till I get a chance to see it.

[capncnut]

Thanks for the reminder on this, Capn. I'll definitely try and keep it at the back of my mind till I get a chance to see it.
Noe worries. ;)

While I'm all enthusiastic, here's a poster:

http://www.dreadcentral.com/img/news/may08/enterthevoidbig.jpg

And here's some stills:

http://www.wiretotheear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/enter_the_void-1.jpg
http://chud.com/articles/content_images/24/enterthevoid2.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_941a7MYd1Qw/Sgza1qrwOQI/AAAAAAAAASg/H7lcPm9Mzc8/s400/etv+%281%29.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_dRxpkiNQHIY/ShcJ2DpQRUI/AAAAAAAADY8/ztGpiEYPPEM/s400/enter_the_void.jpg
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/images/enter_the_void3c.jpg
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/Images/22%20Film_Hoberman.jpg
http://chud.com/articles/content_images/24/enterthevoid1.jpg

There were one or two pornographic ones which I couldn't post, sorry. :p

[kortick]

Looks like an odd film.

the running time of 150 minutes might be trimmed
down, then it may not be.

2 1/2 hours is a long movie, I totally loved
Inland Empire by David Lynch but the running time
did cause it some problems.

Either way its good to have filmakers who dont
do remakes or other lame movies but ones that
are unique.