Bob Loblaw
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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.
» more at:
http://www.screendaily.com/enter-the-void/5001692.article
Looks really good to me.
anxiously awaiting to see this.
