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'Enter The Void'

Can you capture a DMT trip on film? Jason Tucker wrote to tell us about a movie screened at Cannes this Spring that claims to do just that. 'Enter the Void'.

Almost defying definition in contemporary cinematic terms, Gaspar Noe’s third feature film Enter The Void is a wild, hallucinatory mindfuck for adults which sees the director explore new shooting techniques and ambitious special effects to capture a young man’s journey after death. More experience than narrative, it runs to a massive 163 minutes, meandering and careening in and out of story and into visual realms and moods that are nothing short of hypnotic. It is a film that will instantly achieve cult status among young adults. If audiences care to, they can lose themselves in Noe’s images and trip on his imagination. If they don’t, they will be bored to tears.

The neon lit landscapes look like a DMT trip to me. I only hope this film can live up to it's hype. From another review from Twitch:

Gaspar Noe 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 Irreversible, Noe 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 Ne 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).

Another review from Hollywood Reporter calls it "unwatchable":

It goes without saying that the film is violent, but its obsessive emphasis on sex and drugs -- to the point that most viewers are going to feel utterly bludgeoned by both -- makes it virtually unwatchable, especially at its unofficial "director's cut" length of 160 minutes. Commercial prospects seem remote, but its LSD and other drug-induced visual fireworks might ensure a long life as a cult film on DVD.

I haven't been able to find any video clips yet other than the "boy in the box" teaser that really tells nothing, nor can I tell if this film will ever be released anywhere other than Cannes. However, I think "Renegade" may finally have competition for the trippiest movie ever made.

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positron. : 2009-08-25 11:56:06
do these screen shots remind anyone else of glow in the dark better blocks? i honestly had forgotten about them until i saw this story.

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motley. : 2009-08-22 06:02:38
I'd like to see this film .I bet is as not as violent as 'I stand alone' or Irresibile.Two really powerfull films by Noe which are very un- psychedelic but worth seeing if you got the stomach for it .I can't think of a better film than I stand Alone for an examination of Post modern alienation
Anonymous. : 2009-08-21 14:00:15
Yes, maybe I'm a light-weight or just too sensitive, but I don't like watching violent movies very much. I mean, it sounds pretty interesting, but I don't get anything positive out of watching violence, pretend or otherwise.

As far as "drug movies" go, Blueberry was good. There was some violence, but it wasn't too bad and much of it was metaphysical.

Gwyllm. : 2009-08-20 22:30:53
I might see it, but violence tied in with DMT? Naw. BS.
Sergio. : 2009-08-20 15:08:40
Gaspar is an interesting guy, he has balls of steel, very reminiscent of Tarantino when he first came around. This was one I was extremely interested in from the Cannes slate, unfortunately I did not know it ran 160 minutes which is pretty ridiculous, I guess we'll have to wait for the DVD since at that length, I don't think anyone'll be releasing this one in the US anytime soon.
teleomorph : 2009-08-19 22:17:08
Noe and Jan Kounen both contributed short films to a movie called "8." Anyone know how to see this movie in the states?

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