May 13, 2010
Enter the Void
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2010 A gaijin drug dealer is killed in Tokyo, but comes back to fulfill a childhood vow to watch over his slutty sister (Paz de la Huerta). Apparently, after death people have a lot of explicit sex. This film is certainly audacious, but pretentious French director Gaspar Noe, who […]
By Metropolis
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on May 2010
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A gaijin drug dealer is killed in Tokyo, but comes back to fulfill a childhood vow to watch over his slutty sister (Paz de la Huerta). Apparently, after death people have a lot of explicit sex. This film is certainly audacious, but pretentious French director Gaspar Noe, who has clearly started believing his own press releases, doesn’t get that audacity alone is not enough. It’s tiresome, repetitive and gimmicky; the English dialogue’s banal, and at two-and-a-half hours, it’s way too long. If this is the best drug-fueled psychedelic phantasmagoria that Noe can come up with, he should get some better drugs.
