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Enter The Void

ENTER THE VOID (eOne, 2009) D: Gaspar Noé, w: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta. Rating: NNNNN DVD package: NNN Rating: NNNNN


There’s no other movie like it. About 80 per cent of Enter The Void is overhead point-of-view shots from the perspective of the soul of a small-time Tokyo drug dealer murdered in a nightclub washroom.

While Oscar, the dead guy, examines his past – most notably his incest-tinged love for his sister – and spies on the aftermath of his death, the camera swoops and glides, rises and falls, warps the image, goes for city-spanning long shots and close-ups of swimming sperm.

Every so often, Oscar disappears into a light and the visuals go abstract while we wonder whether he’ll move on to a higher plane or opt for reincarnation. A buddy’s rant on the Tibetan Book Of The Dead provides the premise. Colour, movement and composition suggest Oscar’s emotions.

The effect is alternately disorienting, eye-popping, tedious and serene, but ultimately fascinating and likely to get more so on repeated viewings.

The extras offer an effects overview but nothing to explain how this extraordinary movie came to be made.

EXTRAS Visual effects doc, trailers, more. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles.

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