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Enter the Void (2009)

Nathaniel Brown , Paz de la Huerta , Gaspar Noé  |  NR |  DVD
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (91 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta
  • Directors: Gaspar Noé
  • Format: Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen, Anamorphic
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: MPI HOME VIDEO
  • DVD Release Date: January 25, 2011
  • Run Time: 161 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (91 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0048LPRCS
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,408 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Controversial and brilliant director Gasper Noe follows his worldwide sensation Irreversible with another triumph. Enter The Void is Noe s most assured and haunting film yet, a head trip a la Stanley Kubrick s 2001: A Space Odyssey and at the same time a piercing modern drama. Newcomer Nathaniel Brown and Paz de la Huerta (HBO s Boardwalk Empire) star as a brother and sister trapped in the hellish nighttime world of Tokyo where he deals drugs and she works as a stripper.
 
A crime gone bad leads to shocking violence and then moments of transcendence in which the movie plunges viewers into death and rebirth like no film has ever done before via mesmerizing camerawork (The New York Times) that make it a dazzling and brutal exercise in cinematic envelope-pushing (New York Post). Stunning audiences around the world, Enter The Void is a cinematic experience like no other.

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96 of 111 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void October 24, 2010
Format:DVD
If there was ever a two minute opening credit sequence that could grab me by the balls, it's from Gaspar Noé's Enter the Void. I'm confident it will have that effect on most people. You can see it here if you don't believe me. I've never seen anything quite like it. It's a strange beginning when considering the way it contrasts with the rest of the film. This hyper-frenetic, psychedelic introduction is the star of a film running around two and a half hours, and you'll feel every minute of its run time.

Noé has made a career as provocateur. His last few films involve a level of violence, sex and depravity (and a mixture of all three) that anyone could argue is excessive and exploitive. The problem, however, is that Noé is so talented, it can't altogether be dismissed. It reminds of Lars von Trier, and his latest film Antichrist. Enter the Void doesn't represent a marked change in style for Noé. All the base elements are there: sex, drugs, incest, abortion. And it's completely warranted to feel you're owed an explanation as to why you should subject yourself to them. I don't have an answer. But I can say that there are such dazzling flashes of genius sprinkled in throughout the film, that wading through the rest of the bog will be worth it for some. Even though you'll come out of the experience probably feeling dirty, and empty.

Enter the Void is losely based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a canon of scripture for Buddhists. It is an instructional manuel filled with directives for those between this life, and their next reincarnation-what they should prepare to experience, and how they should react. Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) is an American, living in Tokyo. Or at least a Noé-esque Tokyo full of drugs and bass-thumbing club music.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Over-long, but visually unique November 22, 2011
Format:DVD
Disclaimer: I viewed this film as a streaming rental, and as such, cannot comment on the audio or visual quality of the disc. My review concerns the entertainment value of the film itself.

Bound to appeal to only a small subset of film buffs (though to them it should have an intense appeal), 'Enter the Void' is an exploration of the split seconds between life and death, and an experimental trip through method and technique of film-making. Gaspar Noe, the director of 'Irreversible', is the real star here, as this is above all the vision of the helmsman rather than a vehicle for its actors. In fact, several of the key players were first-time unprofessionals, although that made little difference if any toward the film's overall effectiveness. To me, success or failure for this particular sort of film is better measured by how well it communicates its ideas rather than by more traditional yardsticks - but having said that, it's also important to note that a reliance on unusual camera-work, disjointed narrative, and uncommon acting styles is probably going to turn many viewers away from the film before they give the ideas a chance to resonate.

A orphaned young man and his sister, both Westerners, are struggling to get by in Tokyo as a drug dealer and a stripper, respectively. In the early going of the film, the young man, Oscar, is set up for a sting by one of his buyers, and is shot by the police. For the next two hours or so, directer Gaspar Noe envisions the moments prior to death, borrowing heavily on flashback, the effects of the drug DMT, and THE TIBETAN BOOK OF THE DEAD.
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41 of 58 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The unconscious can be counted on to remember... December 31, 2010
By PsyRC
Format:DVD
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The primordial notion behind it is rebirth, but rebirth not only in the actual reincarnated physical sense, as is ultimately consummated, but also rebirth in the sense of being reintegrated with the breast; the notion of incest is absolutely pulsating throughout the entire film, and the metamorphosis of characters experienced throughout the sexual encounters is brutally direct in this sense. It would seem that the dream-like state one is immersed in after death is what allows the maximal realization of this basic instinctive drive, since it would be a state in which all repression is lifted, and desire can be experienced in its purest, most raw form without the nay-saying psychic censor beeping like crazy. This is clearly too threatening for a conscious "normal" person to face up to in their everyday experience, thus dreams and reality are distorted to conform to our particular compromise formations, allowing us to live day-to-day without being overburdened by the anxiety of facing our sexual urges head-on.

In its analytic scope, the Oedipal ties are clearly laid out as unresolved; the little boy experiences the death of his parents with detachment, the death of the rival (his father) and of his love object (his mother) occurring simultaneously, a kind of reverse deus ex machina operating in a perverse way, the rival is killed but in a way that destroys the princess they were fighting over. The impotence he experiences (double meaning) carries its weight retroactively in the notion that his mother tells him that she loves Oscar and his father, but in "very different ways", the Lacanian notion of "the name of the father" rearing its ugly head, the mother loves something the son can never provide to her (the phallus), thus the sexualized love cannot be realized.
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2.0 out of 5 stars I must be the only one
Who was disappointed in this movie. I just couldn't get into things even though I understood what they were attempting to do with the story. Read more
Published 12 days ago by Gina W.
4.0 out of 5 stars A movie unique and adventurous, yet a tad out there for my taste..
What could have been an absolute masterpiece from start to finish becomes a story that gains momentum, then bogs down once you get an understanding about where its headed. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Natja Kristy
5.0 out of 5 stars Trippy movie
Very neat and artistic film, a unique perspective and interesting point of view!!!! I really think this film is fabulous.
Published 2 months ago by RBB.
5.0 out of 5 stars Not for everyone... DMT ?
Nope, this film isn't for everyone... but think about the type if film that is "for everyone" and you find yourself watching "Saving Private Ryan. Read more
Published 2 months ago by E. Walker
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome movie
Incredible movie. You have to watch this movie and travel along with the soul as it embarks on its journey once the body dies.
Published 2 months ago by Shayna
2.0 out of 5 stars strobestrobestrobestrobestrobestrobe OH STOP IT.
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe, 2009)

For the first hour of its ridiculous two-and-a-half-hour running time, Enter the Void is my favorite piece of Noe since Carne (with the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Robert P. Beveridge
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most monumental and enlightening films ever made!
DVD arrived in immaculate packaging within a week of placing my order. Being that this is the directors cut there were several scenes added that really fleshed out certain aspects... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Neal Bryner
5.0 out of 5 stars this film is an invitation
This director has something to show us. It's done without a lot of soundtrack music. It's more internal, more getting into the life of the main character. Read more
Published 3 months ago by David C. Baird
4.0 out of 5 stars A surreal and visiual striking movie!
I won't bother to tell you too much about the actual film since you can go to IMDB to read about it, but I will tell you that it is a one of a kind movie and you will never see... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Carly
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it
Gorgeous visually and emotionally. Only con's would be a somewhat dated psychology and philosophy considering how contemporary all other aspects are. Highly recommended
Published 4 months ago by Edmund X White
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According to blu-ray.com, there are English subtitles.
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Personally, I'd love some making of featurettes, with visuals like this film has I feel like that's a must.
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