Venturing where angels fear to tread, virtuoso filmmaker Gaspar Noé (Vortex) creates a dazzling journey into the Tokyo night, a mind-bending exploration of the outer reaches of human experience inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
This day-glo nocturne is told through the eyes of an American dope-dealer, Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), tripping on a powerful hallucinogen. That is, until Oscar is shot in a nightclub, when the film takes on the aspect of an out of body experience.
Content consideration: Not for the squeamish, this includes explicit sex and gore.
Haunted by incest, shaded by hard-core sex, and travelling through an alternately beautiful and louche drug dream, Enter the Void is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. […] This is a work of uncensored genius, so even its faults are part of its success. A capital M masterpiece.
Mark Harris, Georgia Straight
With beauty, mild and sharp jolts, and mesmerizing camerawork [Noé] tries to open the doors of perception.
Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Enter The Void is a trance-like experience, feeding the shimmering neon of Tokyo at night into a spectacular hallucinogenic head-trip, an experiential marvel, wired to paralyze the brain through a full-on assault on the senses.
Scott Tobias, AV Club
Gaspar Noé
Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn, Olly Alexander
France
2009
In English and Japanese with English subtitles
Book Tickets
Indigenous & Community Access
Indigenous Access Tickets Community Access Tickets Ticket Donation Requests
Credits
Producer
Brahim Chioua, Vincent Maraval, Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier, Pierre Buffin, Gaspar Noé
Screenwriter
Gaspar Noé
Cinematography
Benoît Debie
Editor
Gaspar Noé, Marc Boucrot, Jérôme Pesnel
Also in This Series
These movies speak to our times and push the boundaries of the art form — the true modern classics we’re confident will withstand the test of time.
Lady Bird
Greta Gerwig's first film as writer-director is a delightful, painful comedy about "Lady Bird" McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a Sacramento teen on the point of swapping high school for college, and her hard-working mom, Marion (Laurie Metcalf).
Synecdoche, New York
Charlie Kaufman wrote Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- all great, all successful -- then turned director with Synecdoche, which is a masterpiece and which basically went unseen. It's overdue rediscovery.
