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ENTER THE VOID a film by Gaspar Noe

Thanks to Irreversible, the notoriously graphic film that stirred up Cannes and Sundance audiences a few years ago, French director Gaspar Noé is already well known as a pusher of buttons who likes to examine the dark, distasteful sides of humanity.

His latest film, Enter The Void, recently played Cannes, Sundance, and SXSW to divided and shocked audiences. The visual style is influenced in part by a mushroom trip and by the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

Described as a psychedelic melodrama, the film is set in neon-lit Tokyo and told from the subjective vision of a dead drug dealer who smokes DMT and is then murdered by the police. His spirit — or soul, or consciousness, or ghost — rises from his body and floats over the rest of the film. He looks over his sister as she grieves, drifting from place to place, an omniscient observer of the aftermath of his death.

Set to be released in the US by IFC Films September 2010.

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