Enter the Void (Soudain le vide) (2010)
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Cast
as Linda
as Oscar
as Alex
as Little Linda
as Little Oscar
as Victor
as Mario
as Bruno
as Suzie
as Saki
as Tito
as Carol
as Mother
as Father
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Critic Reviews for Enter the Void (Soudain le vide)
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In visual terms, it's a whiz-bang marvel of swooping and soaring camera work and psychedelic imagery, lit by the gaudy fluorescence of Tokyo's seamier nightclubs.
If you yourself are stoked for a lurid, oversexed, stupid-with-Freud Midnight Movie extravaganza -- a trip to El Topo via Mulholland Drive -- there are worse ways to spend 2 1/2 hours.
"I hated that" will be a common refrain among people leaving showings of Enter the Void. Don't be surprised, though, if you find yourself still thinking about the movie the next day.
[It's] certainly an immersive experience that's decidedly difficult to shake. The problem is that it's also the most excruciating sit in recent cinematic memory.
As chowderheaded as some of its underlying pretensions are, the movie's still an astonishing work of cinema, alternately brilliant and disgusting, naïve and inspired, tedious and sublime.
Hallucinogenic, dazzling, depressing, daring and not entirely successful, "Enter the Void" is obviously out to blow some minds.
Audience Reviews for Enter the Void (Soudain le vide)
With this uncomfortable drug-like experience of strong colors and strobe lights, Gaspar Noé proves again that he is such an imaginative director, taking us with his subjective camera in a depressing psychedelic trip presented entirely from the point of view of its main character.
Super Reviewer
Quite possibly the most trippy and vividly realized films I've ever seen - Gaspar Noe's cinematographic flair is seizure-inducing yet absolutely stunning in scope. The same can be said for the film's plot - which is marvelous at points and nearly unwatchable at others. The film meanders and seems to lose sight in the last 20 minutes, but when the shocking ending arrives and the plot comes full-circle, you can let out a sigh of relief that it was all worth it.
Super Reviewer
Yes, we know that its 1h30min worth of repetitive scenes but thats also the beauty of it. Its art-house and not intended to a fast paced action film. In the right mood, this film is beautiful
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Enter the Void (Soudain le vide) Quotes
| Oscar: | I have a gun. I have a gun. I'm going to shoot. If you don't leave, I'll shoot. |
| Oscar: | "If she ever gets pregnant, I'll kill the baby. I swear to God. " |
| Oscar: | If she ever gets pregnant, I'll kill the baby. I swear to God. |
| Alex: | Alex: The drug guy, he's a dirty bastard you know. Yeah, he likes boys. Oscar: Who is this? Alex: Bruno, the guy that gave me drugs. Don't even take a drink. You take a drink, you might wake up two days later with his shit in your mouth, you know. [pause] Alex: Or your own shit, you know. I should be able to get him to see you today but I won't come back with you so you should be careful. You know what his new trick is? He can't even be turned on by fucking now, so what he does is... Oscar: [looking over the balcony] Hey... I'm not gonna *jump* from here, am I? Alex: Hey, once a new guy gives him a blowjob, yeah, he sticks his finger inside his own ass, and then he wipes his finger on the back of their head. So they walk around with shit on their hair. |
| Alex: | The drug guy, he's a dirty bastard you know. Yeah, he likes boys. |
| Oscar: | Who is this? |
| Linda: | Bruno, the guy that gave me drugs. Don't even take a drink. You take a drink, you might wake up two days later with his shit in your mouth, you know. [pause] Or your own shit, you know. I should be able to get him to see you today but I won't come back with you so you should be careful. You know what his new trick is? He can't even be turned on by fucking now, so what he does is... |
| Oscar: | [looking over the balcony] Hey... I'm not gonna *jump* from here, am I? |
| Alex: | Hey, once a new guy gives him a blowjob, yeah, he sticks his finger inside his own ass, and then he wipes his finger on the back of their head. So they walk around with shit on their hair. |
| Linda: | This thing is not my brother. |