Showing posts with label Enter the Void. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Enter the Void. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Repost: Enter the Void (May 7th at the Cleveland Cinematheque)

[ENTER THE VOID screens Saturday May 7th at 8:30pm. This is the uncut version of the film, which runs 20 minutes longer than the version that played the Cedar Lee back in December. This review is of the shorter version.]

Review by Bob Ignizio

When small time drug dealer Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) gets gunned down in a bathroom stall by the police, his mind/spirit embarks on a journey to find a new home. Like Robert Montgomery's experimental noir film Lady in the Lake (1947), Enter the Void is shot entirely from a subjective point of view. We see everything through Oscar's eyes at first, and then from a completely unanchored “eye of god” point of view once he becomes free of his body. In showing this, at times director Gaspar Noé jerks and spins his camera around in such a way that he seems to be trying to make his audience nauseous.