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Gaspar NoéDrehbuch:
Gaspar NoéKamera:
Benoît DebieMusik:
Thomas BangalterBesetzung:
Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Marina Stone, Olly Alexander, Emily Alyn Lind, Gaspar Noé, Toshio HanaokaStreaming (4)
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Skandal-Regisseur Gaspar Noé präsentiert mit Enter the Void einen hypnotischen Trip durch die Neon durchfluteten Straßenschluchten von Tokio, in denen er seinen Protagonisten die Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod überschreiten lässt: Oscar verbindet eine besonders intensive Beziehung mit seiner Schwester Linda, seitdem sie als Kinder miterleben mussten, wie ihre Eltern bei einem Autounfall ums Leben kamen. Gemeinsam schlagen sie sich durch die Halbwelt von Tokio. Er hält sich mit kleinen Drogendeals über Wasser, sie tritt als Stripperin auf und lässt sich mit zweifelhaften Typen ein. Bei einer Razzia gerät Oscar ins Visier der Polizei. Bei der Flucht wird er niedergeschossen. Sein Körper liegt im Sterben, doch seine Seele weigert sich, aus der Welt der Lebenden zu scheiden. Gerade erst hatte Oscar seiner Schwester hoch und heilig versprochen, sie niemals zu verlassen. Und so wandert sein Geist durch die Stadt – rastlos, ruhelos, immer auf der Suche. Oscars Visionen werden immer grotesker und bizarrer, seine Seele drängt ins Jenseits. Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft verschmelzen zu einem halluzinatorischen Mahlstrom… (Verleiher-Text)
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I would be hard-pressed to find a more psychedelic, experimental and depressing picture in the world of cinema, and in this respect it is certainly an exceptional achievement. I was most impressed by the last flashback to the traumatic experience of the tragic car accident when both siblings lost their parents. I'll probably have the images of Linda screaming in terror in front of my eyes for a long time. Otherwise, however, it was sometimes a bit too drawn out for my taste and, paradoxically, in some respects a bit cheesy. (65%)
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Noé bemühte sich hier um irgendeine "2009: Lebensodyssee“ in einer für ihn typischen psychedelischen Fassung. Nach dem (sehr) vielversprechenden Anfang mit einer dramatischen Schlüsselwende wird der Film aber zu einem langweiligen, langwierigen und konzeptionslosen Herumfliegen zwischen den Ereignissen "vorher und nachher“, die das gegebene Ereignis nicht weitergebracht haben. Der visuell und erzählerisch originelle Stil, mit dem er die Geschichte in Irreversibel erfolgreich bereichert und verstärkt hat, wurde hier für eine selbstzweckmäßige, pseudonachdenkliche Onanie missbraucht.
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Eine unglaublich ausgefeilter Filmtrip, an dessen Ende ich das Gefühl hatte, dass ich inne vollkommene Leere herunterfalle. Obwohl die 140 Minuten alles andere als fehlerfrei und ohne Kopfschütteln bleiben, ist dieser Mix an halluzinogenen Aktionen, Porno und existenziellem Katergefühl schlichtweg eine der besten Sachen dieses Jahres. Ich bin einverstanden mit denjenigen, die lieber nicht sehen möchten, was passiert, wenn sich der erste Kreis schließt ... aber am mentalen Katergefühl ändert das nicht viel.
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When the opening credits are the most impressive part of a 161-minute movie, something is simply wrong. Enter the Void is a silly, primordially shocking and self-absorbed festival of nonsense, that is, to top it all off, excruciatingly long and painfully tedious. Everything it manages to impress with, happens in the first half hour, followed by almost endless introspection, with utterly ridiculous dialogues and a banal story, all wrapped up in psychedelic robes. If I use one simile in line with this movie’s content, I would compare watching it to a girl not wanting to get off you after mutually climaxing, and casually kept your dick in her hand, trying to pull you off for two more hours in the same position. Tedious as fuck! There is almost nothing to complain about the audiovisual experience in the first hour, but after an hour even that gets boring, and all the POV camera zooms, and the transitions become extremely repetitive and annoying. And last but not least, the potential that Tokyo as a location for a movie, with all the interesting aspects it specifically offers. is absolutely wasted here – the whole of Tokyo, or even Japan, is reduced to a place with a few neon-lit streets and nothing more, so the movie could have been set basically anywhere in the world and the result would have been exactly the same. Oh yeah, it is a severe disappointment. If Noé hadn't tried to turn this into an erotic drama with a nod to Tibetan Buddhism, and just made an unpretentious straight-up porno with a polished audiovisual look, he would have done much better. I give it a better 1 star.
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Best opening credits I've ever seen, best and most intimate proportional depiction of a city I've ever seen.
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The entire film fluctuates between opening and closing title sequences, between two Tokyo bars, between life and death - and between Enter and the Void. In the average middle position between these almost three-hour amplitudes lies (although not in the middle of the runtime) the central sentence of the film, which states that drug XY (I don't remember the name) has the same effect as death. Noé therefore embarks on a deep drug trip, but here a problem arises - three hours need to be filled with some type of material and content on the basis of which the trip can take place. We must not be fooled: although the trip is in its visual effects a pure form and abstraction, in a drug-induced frenzy the "content," the "meaning," and what "was so beautiful" is always somewhat present and inevitably attached itself to the hallucinogenic audiovisual experience without being “just” it. In other words, a (film) trip also requires a screenplay that enables the trip, and here Noé falls short - banal thoughts about reincarnation (legitimizing camera techniques and the plot of the film), pathetic parallels between children and death, etc. Oh, how the film would benefit if it could rid itself of these literalities and story crutches as much as possible, if it let itself be carried away by its own greatest advantage, i.e., the smooth pulsating atmosphere of a psychedelically mad city, captured in an experimental film form, precisely fulfilling the thesis of the unity of content and form. In short, if the whole film were like its opening title sequences, in which the original content is injected into the viewer's veins in such a way that in the newly created psychotropic form, all forms of readability are distorted to such an extent that they become unreadable in exchange for pure enjoyment of colors, movement, and sound.
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I simply have to appreciate Gaspar Noé for his innovative approach to filmmaking, presenting viewers with something completely new and not shying away from depicting explicit content, especially sex, although the same goes for violence in his films. Unfortunately, in terms of content, his films just don't resonate with me much.
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Without a doubt one of the most original films I've ever seen. An absolutely intense experience and right from the start – the opening credits "alone" are really legit. Plus, Enter the Void is not even completely EMPTY on a psychological level:))) As Oskar's soul wanders and returns to his childhood and recent past, the viewer has the opportunity to get to know his personality better and hopefully understand his future direction. Still, it's not up to full marks with me, because after the excellent first hour (the opening drug bust in perfectly stylized and psycho images is perfect, and the scene of Oskar's death is no less mesmerizing) you start to get the feeling that Noé is repeating himself in some ways, and those insanely long shots of him flying over the city can start to get boring. But of course that doesn't change the fact that it's an unforgettable experience. Plus, despite the aforementioned overlong shots, the cinematography is obtusely beautiful:))) 90%
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