Gaspar Noé on Enter The Void

Gaspar Noé, the enfant terrible of French cinema and director of the internationally infamous Irréversible, I Stand Alone, speaks to Cinémoi about his new film, Enter the Void, a self-labelled “psychedelic melodrama” set to stun audiences once more.

Played out against Tokyo’s neon-soaked nightscape, Noé explores the spiritual and hallucinogenic world of the afterlife through the eyes of Oscar, a drug dealing American who is shot dead in a police raid. The result is a visually arresting and audacious spectacle of familial ties, inner consciousness and the circle of life and death.

This hypnotic and experimental ‘head trip’ is coupled with a striking production design by the prolific visionary Marc Caro (half of the Jeunet/Caro duo, who brought us the cult classics Delicatessen, The City of Lost Children and director of Dante 01 showing on Cinémoi this month). Enter the Void has been described as an art-film counterpart to James Cameron’s Avatar, blending elements of Kubrick’s 2001, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, and dozens of other films, books, and videogames to craft Noé’s journey into a twisted alternate reality.

A rough version of this visceral thriller premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival before overwhelming audiences at Toronto and Sundance and now around the world.

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