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Enter the Void

  • 2009
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 41m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
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Enter the Void (2009)
A drug-dealing teen is killed in Japan, after which he reappears as a ghost to watch over his sister.
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An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.An American drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.

  • Director
    • Gaspar Noé
  • Writers
    • Gaspar Noé
    • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
  • Stars
    • Nathaniel Brown
    • Paz de la Huerta
    • Cyril Roy
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    84K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,874
    442
    • Director
      • Gaspar Noé
    • Writers
      • Gaspar Noé
      • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
    • Stars
      • Nathaniel Brown
      • Paz de la Huerta
      • Cyril Roy
    • 314User reviews
    • 228Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 8 nominations

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    Paz de la Huerta and Nathaniel Brown in Enter the Void (2009)
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    Nathaniel Brown
    Nathaniel Brown
    • Oscar
    Paz de la Huerta
    Paz de la Huerta
    • Linda
    Cyril Roy
    Cyril Roy
    • Alex
    Olly Alexander
    Olly Alexander
    • Victor
    Masato Tanno
    • Mario
    Ed Spear
    • Bruno
    Emily Alyn Lind
    Emily Alyn Lind
    • Little Linda
    Jesse Kuhn
    • Little Oscar
    Nobu Imai
    • Tito
    Sakiko Fukuhara
    • Saki
    Janice Béliveau-Sicotte
    • Mother
    • (as Janice Sicotte-Béliveau)
    Sara Stockbridge
    Sara Stockbridge
    • Suzy
    • (as Sarah Stockbridge)
    Stuart Miller
    • Victor's Father
    Emi Takeuchi
    • Carol
    • (as Yemi)
    Rumiko Kimishima
    • Rumi
    Akira Kuzuki
    • Techno Club Girl
    Sayuki Nakamura
    • Techno Club Girl
    Kaori Nakamura
    • Techno Club Girl
    • Director
      • Gaspar Noé
    • Writers
      • Gaspar Noé
      • Lucile Hadzihalilovic
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Most of the dialogue was improvised by the cast. Gaspar Noé stated that, as he didn't understand English very much, he needed someone to tell him if what the cast was saying sounded good or not.
    • Goofs
      During the first sequence in the "Sex, Money, Power" strip club, the camera and jib/crane are visible in the reflection of the platform the dancers are on.
    • Quotes

      Alex: Basically, when you die your spirit leaves your body, actually at first you can see all your life, like reflected in a magic mirror. Then you start floating like a ghost, you can see anything happening around you, you can hear everything but you can't communicate. Then you see lights, lights of all different colours, these lights are the doors that pull you into other planes of existence, but most people actually like this world so much, that they don't want to be taken away, so the whole thing turns into a bad trip, and the only way out is to get reincarnated.

    • Crazy credits
      At the Cannes Film Festival the film was screened without any opening or closing credits, the film began with "ENTER" and ended with "THE VOID".
    • Alternate versions
      In some countries, the theatrical release was shortened by omitting reel 7 of 9. This removed 17 minutes of material.
    • Connections
      Featured in Durch die Nacht mit...: Harmony Korine und Gaspar Noé (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Salve Regina
      Performed by Jez Poole and Martyn Warren

      © ZFC Music

      Courtesy of Universal Publishing Production Music

    User reviews314

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    Johnny-one-note porn; morbid & trite
    Gaspar Noe gets a free pass from film festival directors and apparently (judging from the IMDb sample reaction) ignorant film fans with his intentionally provocative works. I've seen this dreck before.

    With ENTER THE VOID we have a typical case of a film (or video)-maker infatuated with some technique and then running it into the ground. The floating "omniscient" camera p-o-v is unleashed early in the film after the first-person hand-held camera gimmick wears thin, and the viewer must suffer through it for over two hours, when Noe is not cribbing from "the ultimate trip", Kubrick's 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY for his tedious light shows.

    As a film buff old enough to have sat through 2001 several times in all its Cinerama glory, I can vouch for its trippy theatrical impact back in 1968; current fans do not have this opportunity so we don't have a fair appreciation of this masterpiece based on mere video screenings. Even given this advantage, Noe conjures here an ordinary rendering of the "cult of ugliness", making each shot pastel-pretty but with determined ugly = beautiful inversions. I would prefer an Abel Ferrara visit to the drug-infested gutter with his intrinsically gritty approach to Noe's SFX hokum any day of the week.

    The bland anti-hero Nathaniel Brown was poorly cast, a dull presence in those few shots when we actually see him, and his sidekick Cyril Roy is embarrassingly there just to deliver exposition. Even in the most rudimentary, improvised XXX porn, I can't recall having the film's premise "explained" to me the way Roy lays out in detail the reincarnation theme from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, and then, sure enough Brown goes through the out-of-body post-death claptrap as described. Paz de la Huerta is the recent indie flavor of the month girl (see: Jarmusch), but her lack of acting ability is evident, especially in her freakout scene here. In castng this eye candy role, anybody (read: any body) will do.

    For porno content, Noe delivers considerable footage, none of which has the impact of real porn. Especially when compared to the work of Phil Prince, Joe Davian and other New York City pornographers of the '70s and early '80s, when s&m/b&d dominated (pun intended) porn features for a while, all fully documented on DVD reissues. Glamorizing then debunking the ecstasies/perils of the druggie life style is such an old hat concept in filmmaking that I'm surprised anyone gave Noe any credit for this rehash.

    Parting shot: the infamous "penis entering vagina" shot in ENTER THE VOID is a corny ripoff of pornographer Luca Damiano, who has used this effect in numerous '90s porn videos, any one of which is more entertaining than VOID. Check out his EROTIC ADVENTURES OF RED RIDING HOOD for a prime example.
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    • Release date
      • May 5, 2010 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Germany
      • Italy
      • Canada
      • Japan
    • Official sites
      • IFC Films (United States)
      • Official site (France)
    • Languages
      • English
      • Japanese
    • Also known as
      • Vào Cõi Hư Vô
    • Filming locations
      • Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Fidélité Films
      • Wild Bunch
      • BUF
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $16,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $336,467
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $43,651
      • Sep 26, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $775,385
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • DTS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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