Enter the Void

A drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection. Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void?

Keywords

  • Best sequence-shots
  • Festival de Cannes
  • Festival de Cannes - Tax Shelter
  • Fien Troch’s favourite films
  • Gaspar Noé
  • drugs

Actors

  • Nathaniel Brown
  • Nobu Imai
  • Emily Alyn Lind
  • Olly Alexander
  • Jesse Kuhn
  • Cyril Roy
  • Ed Spear
  • Sara Stockbridge
  • Paz de la Huerta
  • Masato Tanno

Director

  • Gaspar Noé

Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantaisie


2h 41min


-16

EN


FR

France
Japan
2008
A drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.

A drug dealer living in Tokyo is betrayed by his best friend and killed in a drug deal. His soul, observing the repercussions of his death, seeks resurrection.


Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void?

Cast & Crew