With Enter the Void Gaspar Noe made a definitive drug/avant-garde film based the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Last night at the IFC Center he said, “I’m not spiritual.”
Sure he’s not.
You will not like this movie if you…
1) have epilepsy.
2) are straight edge.
3) think that 2 hours 43 minutes of POV floating through sleazy Tokyo aside and inside Bardo/a psychedelic death trip bombarded with emotional anguish, neon and naked Paz de La Huerta doesn’t sound good.
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- Gaspar Noe and Nathaniel Brown at Enter The Void Q&A at IFC, 09/26/10
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- Gaspar Noe and Nathaniel Brown at Enter The Void Q&A at IFC, 09/26/10
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Working with BUF, the best in the special effects biz behind Fight Club Wong Kar-wai’s 2046, and years of controlled recreational experience/research, Gaspar Noe “wanted to make a trippy movie” that looked authentic. So shelf your academic bullshit cinema theories and banal mainstream expectations and see it at IFC. Sit close up.
The US viewers are shortchanged reel #7 (Noe: “the most anguishing”) which was plucked out since Cannes in its entirety. Meh. But we’ll keep you posted when IFC decides to screen the entire thing.
Gaspar Noe says in all interviews that he is not spiritual and that there is no reincarnation in this movie (he says there is no reincarnation , but I feel like such comments alongside a movie like this is something of a defense mechanism. I understand that it's the kind of movie where it could either be a dream OR what it actually appears to be…but it seems no choice was made to define it in the film as a dream (at least any more than life is a dream) unlike in the film "Waking Life" where that was made clear.
Not that it matters, or affects what I got out of this movie, but I just do not understand taking such a defined stance on a movie that seems to defy definitions.
PS–Also, anyone who has studied the Tibetan Book of the Dead and Buddhism will probably find this movie verrrry interesting and thought provoking.