Enter The Void by Gaspar Noé

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.

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....

Better than those lousy fake geniuses eh Mike

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.