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

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