Described as a “psychedelic melodrama”, Enter the void was shot in Tokyo, and is inspired by the famous The Tibetan Book of the Dead – a near-death experience (see also the myth of Orpheus or more recently, Miyazaki’s Chihiro). And so, here are the first Twitter reactions, followed by some reviews:
@firstshowing> Enter the Void was a 2.5 hour acid trip with drugs, more sex than a porno, fractals galore and dull actors. Absolute mess, tried and failed.
@totalfilm> What the… What the… Wow. Wow. Er. Gasper Noe’s Enter The Void is the most bonkers thing we’ve ever seen. Nuts. Insane. Giant penis.
@gemko> Enter [...three hours later...] the Void (’09 Noé): 57. Formally amazing (especially the slide-show flashback sequence), but really stoopid.
@picturehouses> Gasper Noe’s Enter The Void – appropriately titled!
@alisonwillmore> ENTER THE VOID: Really liked the 1st half, wanted to murder the 2nd in a dive bar bathroom. Also: Womb-cam shot of conception, really? Noe comes close to equalling von Trier re the crazy – ghost’s-eye-view Tokyo underbelly orphans reincarnation story.
@mathiaspardo> i dunno what gaspar noé is on, but i want the same shit! his last film: enter the void is extremely powerful.
@erickohn> ENTER THE VOID is like a first person CLOVERFIELD meets the Tibetan Book of the Dead and concludes like LOOK WHO’S TALKING. Tooo looong.
@insidecannes> It’s a pure dud, bad remake of Irreversible. Why it’s in the official competition?
@Krassakopoulos> Gaspar Noe’s Enter the Void:I did. and I couldn’t get out of it fast enough. he’s been there, he’s done that much better in the past.
Now some reviews:
From The Auteurs
Enter the Void is a vision of a kind of mainstream post-mainstream film that knowingly eliminates all that might be poignant about cinema beyond aesthetics.
From Screendaily
[...] 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. [...] 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.
From Variety
[...] Not clever enough to be truly pretentious, Noe’s tiresomely gimmicky film about a low-level Tokyo drug dealer who enjoys one long, last trip after dying proves to be the ne plus ultra of nothing much.
More coming soon!
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