Early discussion here Irreversible: C/D but now it seems this film will make its debut at Cannes next week. I reckon it'll be one of the cinematic events of the decade, and to say I'm excited is an understatement.
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
So what's the deal with the movie? That thread is short on details.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Dude lives in Tokyo with his sister, gets stabbed outside a club, goes on crazy psychedelic out-of-body experience round city, through time and space, partially based on the Tibetan Book Of The Dead
i.e. rad
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Sounds kind of like that stupid Hugh Jackman movie by the guy who made PI to me.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i so have to see the fountain now
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, 8 May 2009 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
goes on crazy psychedelic out-of-body experience round city, through time and space
Sounds like DMT.
― Ned Trifle II, Friday, 8 May 2009 22:42 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.soudainlevide.com/english/
DMT indeed.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
teaser. appropriately frustrating i guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mooCXnTMJUQ&feature=related
― riffed on by internet john krasinskis (circa1916), Thursday, 23 July 2009 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
supposedly the opening credits:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPxgi-PiNFE
― circa1916, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link
japanese trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9B941MaqAs
Wide release of Enter the Void will be in September. Boo.
Meanwhile, here's a Noe short about a woman who starves to death eating only kittens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4g2tNacm2c
― Derelict, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
loooooooooooooool
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:33 (fourteen years ago) link
A+++ pisstake, much lmao @ youtube comment debate
― ilxor lookin' boy (acoleuthic), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
anyway roll on september, this promises to be quite something. fuck the haters etc
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/enterthevoid/
Story/premise coming off pretty cornball here. Still gonna do what I can to see this in a theater though.
― circa1916, Thursday, 12 August 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Despite using him for funny imgs, I have actually never seen one of this guy's films. Not too into the french nihilism thing
― The world's leaders on pills (admrl), Thursday, 12 August 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone seen this yet?
― jeff, Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
deeply terrifying poster
― "SEX" drought, 2 wisks (zorn_bond.mp3), Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 September 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
it's too long and pretty dumb but at the same time, kinda rad
the opening credits (as posted above) are the best part iirc!
hrmmm... seeing this while high -- bad idea?
― jeff, Thursday, 23 September 2010 05:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i think it'd be fun for the first little bit, then you'd get bored and impatient as it wore off, which is often the case when seeing a movie while high ime
― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 September 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for the pro tips
― jeff, Thursday, 23 September 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
dont enter the void w/o them
― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 September 2010 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
O_O
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 September 2010 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link
fuuuuuuuuuuck
?
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:41 (thirteen years ago) link
saw a near-midnight showing and it was probably the most emotionally draining theater experience i've ever had. i felt beat-up by the end
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean five stars, A+++ and all, but i don't think i'll ever want to put myself through seeing it again
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
people were straight peacing out thru the whole thing. Was that at your showing or just because mine was a 2 1/2 hour movie going til 2 am
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 September 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
oic
ya mine was a midnight screening too, don't remember that many walkouts tho
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i interviewed him the day after and he was incredibly hungover and stinky and paz de la huerta kept calling him and asking for aspirin
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Sunday, 26 September 2010 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link
this is def movie of the year for me
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 September 2010 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
in 1986 it was 'children of a lesser god' for me
― ('_') (omar little), Sunday, 26 September 2010 19:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I saw this with a Q+A on Thursday night. It was absorbing, but nowhere near great or even *impressive*. A floaty sprawl into nowhere and back. Somewhat menacing and atmospheric, but hardly moving or scary like a good Lynch film or something...this is the key to why it was only 7/10 for me.
Max Tundra/ben was at the screening..we had a chat!
― Davek (davek_00), Sunday, 26 September 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i can't say i loved this... it was really something, to be sure, but also just kinda lacking in real oomph beyond the cinematics - which i did enjoy a bunch. also it just goes on for way too fucken long
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Sunday, 26 September 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
ha this interview is full of gems
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/film/2010-09-14/gaspar-noe-enter-the-void/
― Gaspar NoAgé (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 26 September 2010 19:50 (thirteen years ago) link
enjoyed this quite a bit, though i am guilty of taking a smoke break. decent celeb spotting at the screening. A+++ WOULD SEE AGAIN
― jeff, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 07:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Love these trailers. Unfortunately, this is showing at an arthouse theater in Chicago without the best sound and picture -- seems like one to see in as state-of-the-art a theater as possible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCVmy5bCf58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_SgLWefSfY&feature=related
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbUSHkOEyOs&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKzLGgTbAe0&feature=related
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm, On demand, too
― Excluding Skits and Such (Eazy), Thursday, 30 September 2010 15:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw it this afternoon, left me a mixture of amazed/awed and frustrated.
The bad: if I'd had an ounce of compassion for the characters (Linda esp. was the very worst kind of whiny idiot) then I think the emotional intensity that Noe was trying for might have worked. But it was just a case of stuff happening to them and, other than the really visceral bits like the crash and the shooting, I was left thinking "so what?". Other than Alex they were all total dicks - doubtless Noe made a decision to write the characters as obnoxious fuck-ups, but the aimed for profundity of their experiences was lost on me because of this.
The good: an astonishing aesthetic and technical tour de force. I'm rarely blown away by the visuals of modern films, but this was something else. The merging of sound design, music and cinematography was incredibly effective too. What I took away from it the most was probably a series of isolated elements eg. the DMT trip, the streets of Tokyo from below and above, and especially the whole Love Hotel sequence. If Noe could have married this stuff with even slightly engaging characters and/or plot then this film could have been *incredible*.
― Bill A, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, Alex was a cool dude
― some o))) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
man, the car accident scenes have been sticking with me for days. Just the long scenes of young Linda's hysterics and young Oscar's stunned confusion was just the most gut-wrenching part of this movie hands down.
― some o))) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I should clarify that the flashback/life-before-yr-eyes stuff with the kids were almost the only bits that felt successful with regard to making me feel a connection with the characters; the late on scene with Oscar and Linda strapped in behind their dead parents was fucking heavy and I just wish more of it could have been so directly powerful.
― Bill A, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:29 (thirteen years ago) link
the rollercoaster->car crash edit was pretty intense
― http://tinyurl.com/tittyblam (SFW) (s1ocki), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeh the screaming wee girl was pretty intense. cared nothing for any of the characters proper at all. the bit with dopey oscar walking down the stairs behind alex eh explaining the book of the dead was really funny these foreign people in tokyo was like whit stillman or something I did like it when alex asked oscar for some water and then asked to take the water with them though. the drifting bits were pretty incredible maybe the best bits other than the opening titles which were def the best bit but the drifting bits did just go on too long and so did other stuff really wasn't enjoying it by the end and some of the more graphic bits were a bit yawn and there were a few lols at the back of the cinema. was really impressed by titles and then quite immersed for the first maybe 30 mins or so and then some pretty cool bits through the rest but yeah was fairly wanting it to end after a while one of those films though that a few days after seeing it I think that was really quite amazing and I think of what it looked like and some of the none-lame atmospherics rather than the stupid stuff seems silly to worry about reality or some idea of believability or sense in plot when it's doing the other stuff on balance it was good
― conrad, Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:39 (thirteen years ago) link
seriously, i got a warm tingle that went from the front of my head down the back of my neck, like someone cracked a warm egg on me
― some o))) (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
uhh someone did
― http://tinyurl.com/tittyblam (SFW) (s1ocki), Thursday, 30 September 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
He isn't alive at this point, he is a voyueristic eye that is incapable of any kind of interaction with the living world other than watching it. But I suppose a film like this can be interprated in many ways because of its hallucinatory style. Surely you cant fuck your sister when your dead?
The point I was trying to make rather badly was that I didn't think it was a depiction of overt incest. Yes some unsavoury stuff but no sex between them. It is alluded to but is just background stuff really.
For me if this film was character driven it would be a fail. Linda is just a standard tragic hooker character. It still doesn't detract from the film that you dont buy their interaction and are not convinced that they are siblings. For me this is a film about what goes on when you are out of your mind. The plot and dialogue are just the obligatory components of a wafer thin story in this case. That is what excited me about this film, it has been made with little regard for rational movie structure. In my opinion it is a genuine attempt at creating something that is a new way of depicting how life is sometimes experienced.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 4 February 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
love the shit book of the dead dialogue sequence down the stairs to the club
― conrad, Friday, 4 February 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yes, we do not see them committing the act of incest, but the film makes it clear that they have a rather sexually charged brother/sister relationship. describing it as "incestual" isn't off the mark. anyway, silly details. xpost.
― circa1916, Friday, 4 February 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess my real gripe was the manipulation Noé takes at every given turn - DEAD PARENTS! INCEST! CAR CRASH! - where the premise alone was really cool and unique. I wanted this transcendent experience, but the exploitative trickery just kind of ruined it for me. That said, it was visually stunning and I won't forget it any time soon.
― Darin, Friday, 4 February 2011 23:44 (thirteen years ago) link
really wish Noe would get someone to write him something cool. there's a lot of talent there, it's just weighed down by so much dumb.
― circa1916, Friday, 4 February 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
by the time he was smash cutting from the naked mother in the bathtub to fucking the friend's mom i just wanted it to be over. i mean hoo boy.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 5 February 2011 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
If nothing else I've got to hand it to a film where the camera emerging from the womb is the most predictable ending
― Bangelo, Saturday, 5 February 2011 09:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought this movie peaked at the Love Hotel sequence toward the end.
Just finished watching a #$%^ torrent of it on my %$*@ Acer but DAMN. Loved it.
― Ayo Scott (rip van wanko), Sunday, 6 February 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
― Bangelo, Saturday, February 5, 2011 9:59 AM (5 months ago) Bookmark
lol
finally got around to watching this on netflix. really liked it. didn't drag for me at all.
funny how this and The Tree of Life are essentially bizarro anti-versions of each other.
I wanted this transcendent experience, but the exploitative trickery just kind of ruined it for me.
this movie isn't reaching for transcendence. it's really thumbing its nose at the idea of transcendence. it's about regression, if anything.
― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Monday, 11 July 2011 08:26 (twelve years ago) link
it's a big flashy dumb trip through a dying idiot's psyche.
― Rachel Puppetry (latebloomer), Monday, 11 July 2011 08:30 (twelve years ago) link
One good thing about watching this at home is that at least you only have the back of one guy's head getting in the way the whole time.
― Lars and the Lulu Girl (NickB), Saturday, 12 November 2011 09:35 (twelve years ago) link
Haha
― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 12 November 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
this film is basically tree of life w more dmt and less dinosaurs
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 07:39 (twelve years ago) link
I've watched the opening credits like ten times but never made it more than 5 minutes into the movie itself.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 08:04 (twelve years ago) link
― sorry for british (country matters), Friday, May 8, 2009 11:15 PM (2 years ago)
lj was right
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 20 April 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
you do realise I still haven't seen it, nor do I particularly want to
no film's worth has travelled with such exquisite inversity to my advancing months as Irreversible's
― once a week is ample, Friday, 20 April 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
hey elge
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Friday, 20 April 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
yah i remember u recanting on noé
ive not seen irreversible, i saw seul contre tous years ago and dont remember a lot about it other than it being a fairly impressive first feature with neat godardian intertitles and the glowering visage of the poujadist psycho protag
enter the void tho, is something else
the discourse around his films is dreadful, he alienates the right ppl but typecasts himself as a korine level idiot-visionary in the process
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 20 April 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
how do you make the credits -- is it in after effects?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 20 April 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
couldn't get on board w enter the void. extremely impressive and well-crafted, a hell of a drug, but whether you take it as an embrace or a repudiation of mystical transcendentalism, it struck me as drivel. perhaps that just makes me "the right people"...
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
no, i would prefer that u liked it
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
dang
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
all of those boorish anglo empiricist EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES, PRETENTIOUS BLOODY OLD RUBBISH critics who insist on getting upset by trier haneke dumont etc are just the worst most tiresome idiots tho
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
i think there is some value to this film and i really liked parts but i was glad to watch it at home on netflix because i really liked being able to FF through some really drawn-out parts (for example, the interminable crane shots over the model of tokyo)
it felt like an undeserved and overlong directors cut of a better movie
― the late great, Saturday, 21 April 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
i really liked being able to FF through some really drawn-out parts (for example, the interminable crane shots over the model of tokyo)
i could watch these shots for hours
― ♆ (gr8080), Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, tbh the crane shots were one of my favorite things about the film. photography and design were great pretty much all the way through. was the story & characters i got tired of.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
really? they were too fake-looking for me, though i really did enjoy the ones at the end where the city was all lit up and "psychedelicized".
i think my favorite parts where the rave/nightclub scene, especially "coming up" part and the part where they're coming down in that glittery underground room full of twinkly crystal stuff and mirrors. that and the abrupt cut from the rollercoaster ride to the *big traumatic event* (trying not to spoil this one though i think it already happened upthread)
― the late great, Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite part is how he floats in to his sister's vagina
― ♆ (gr8080), Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
dude you could not pay me to float into paz de la huerta's greasy vagina
― the late great, Sunday, 22 April 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
jesus fucking christ
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
sorry, took me aback [/loi]. i mean, uh, i agree that the flying/floating "crane shot" parts were fakey looking, but in a way that didn't bother me, especially when they started to get all psychedelically glowy in the second half.
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
paz de la huerta's greasy vagina
^ dn's up for grabs
^ thread ideas
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Sunday, 22 April 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
the crane shots of tokyo / the 'wow...tokyo on acid' scale model thereof were great
really it isn't a film whose rarified qualities are best appreciated by describing scenes diagramatically any more than attempting to convey the greatness of 'mirror' might be helped by describing the scenes where tarkovsky's mother runs around a deserted dreamscape and washes her hair in a room full of falling plasterwork and then there's a shot of some grass blowing in the wind etc etc
even when you try to recollect it, one wonders how it is that loads of seamless crane shots in and through buildings didn't look like a trailer for the sims as filmed by jodorowsky, but really it doesn't seem at all like that whilst watching
the soundtrack is notweworthy too...lfo, karkowski, lucier....
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 22 April 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
i guess i just wasn't as absorbed by those long shots as i was by tarkovsky's long shots ... another example would be at the beginning when he was watching his DMT hallucination against the ceiling, very slow
i guess i don't really care for diegetic time in movies, esp when imo he's already covered that base via the POV, but yeah, maybe i just have a short attention span because though i enjoy stalker and solaris enough to own copies i still find myself checking my watch a lot during those
― the late great, Sunday, 22 April 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
i'm a johnny-come-lately, but i've just seen this and irreversible ... and for once, Morbz's bitchy dismissiveness is totally 100% OTM. i can get w/ stylized, disturbing ultraviolence (i.e., i like Takashi Miike films). Gaspar Noe, however, is just pretentious & repulsive nonsense.
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Thursday, 31 January 2013 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
also, i wonder if any epileptics have sued Noe (or the theaters that showed this) yet -- they might have a case!
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Thursday, 31 January 2013 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
dunno if there's a thread for this but I would definitely nominate this for "film that's way more fun to talk about than it is to actually watch"
― frogbs, Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:15 (eleven years ago) link
i love the harsh ambient qualities of noe's stuff, esp the last ten minutes of irreversible and at least the first half of void - he really nails that white light floaty rush of gd mdma like no other filmmaker imho - and i absolutely can't think of anything that's pretentious abt his movies - some of the verry long take shots passing over tokyo streets at the start of void are a considered and sincere technical exercise in spatial/temporary fuckery - it's also quite a hopeful film, too (we have been here before and we will be here again)
noe and dumont ftw!
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
co-sign 100% of that post
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 31 January 2013 20:49 (eleven years ago) link
"gd MDMA"
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 31 January 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
feel the LOVE, morbs
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 January 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
not to pick on you, ward, but this:
it's also quite a hopeful film, too (we have been here before and we will be here again)
contradicts this:
i absolutely can't think of anything that's pretentious abt his movies
at least in my mind.
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Thursday, 31 January 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
to wit: bullshit metaphysical posturing (which Noe himself doesn't even subscribe to, in his own words) and puerile camera tricks (i.e., the PussyCam, complete w/ thrusting cock, sperm and ova).
it's better than irreversible, i'll give it that much. and Noe has good taste in the (better) directors from whom he steals (e.g., Lynch, Kubrick, Tarantino, Kalatozov).
― i have a history of enabling your mother. (Eisbaer), Thursday, 31 January 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
x-post
i dunno, it's not an original idea - it's kind of a buddhist sentiment, isn't it? - but pretentious how? i mean, noe makes it p clear in irreversible that TIME - real time - drug time - eternal time - is a v big interest of his - and imho it's a good subject to investigate in a durational medium like film (and i don't think you have to be a believer - apart from IN CINEMA lol - in any sense to also be interested in this subject)
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 31 January 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Every Noé film has some amazing technical tricks, and foregrounds them in the service of misanthropy, sophomoric chin stroking and flat characters. Still there aren't many directors doing art cinema carnival rides, and that's enough reason for me to like his films.
― with perhaps the exception of r-r-r-r-rhythm (Sanpaku), Friday, 1 February 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
I've heard a lot of talk about this film and I'm starting to think I might have found this film sadder than anyone else who'd seen it. Nodody told me it was sad but I think I might get weepy if I see it again; I was a little bit upset in bed after seeing this. The music at the last sex scene is gorgeous, need to find out who did that.
It was too long but it didn't drag nearly as bad as I was told.
I couldn't find many cheap and decent DVD versions of this and I'm not sure if the copy I got was poor or if my DVD player wasn't good enough for it, because the picture wasn't great, so I feel like I haven't experienced the film properly yet. Reluctant to get a bluray machine (are there multi-region players yet?)
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 13 April 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
pretty posi you can easily score or make Blu-Ray players region free these days? Though I don't know for sure. I'm sure Oppo makes some.
― funny and lolexander (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 14 April 2014 02:51 (nine years ago) link
Michael Gira posted about this on the Swans Facebook page just the other day:
this is a great film, and apparently a disaster for all concerned (except the lucky ones who have seen it). i met gaspar noe in paris recently. we hung out and drank a bit. i started talking about God, and i think i either scared him or repelled him or disgusted him. anyway, it was nice to meet such a true genius....
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 14 April 2014 09:24 (nine years ago) link
Better than those lousy fake geniuses eh Mike
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Monday, 14 April 2014 09:34 (nine years ago) link
We watched this last night because my 17-yr-old son is kind of a Noe fan. He'd watched Climax and Irreversible, I'd only seen Climax, which I mostly enjoyed for its energy but also found a bit tedious. "A bit tedious" is a big understatement for Enter the Void, which imo is much too long and mostly focused on all the wrong things.
It was not nearly as freaky or psychedelic as I was expecting. The idea of rendering the experience of death and reincarnation in a movie is nervy enough, and I was ready for Noe to really run with it. But it stays disappointingly earthbound, wrapped up in a boring narrative about dumb unlikable people. The only parts I really liked were the ones with FX and CGI and crazy swooping filmmaking, but those were interspersed with long scenes about uninteresting characters. Bleah.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 16 January 2022 21:12 (two years ago) link