Enter the Void

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