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"Enter The Void" Anyone seen it?

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If you liked "Enter the Void", then watch "Irreversible" in my opinion its Gaspar Noe's best work. Its really amazing.
 
Yep - saw the extended version in a sold-out cinema in LA. Everyone applauded after the title sequence - hahaha!

Personally I really, really enjoyed. But then I was in the mood for it.

Although I do think that if the filmmaker says that "well, the difference between the full and the cut versions is the whole of reel 7" - well, that shows that there are perhaps some narrative / pacing / story structure issues if you can take out a whole reel like that! BTW, apparently the director stated that he would prefer that the movie be projected at 25fps instead of 24. I can actually sympathize with that - I did a comedy short in PAL progressive 25p and converted to 24p - and that 4% slowdown threw the whole thing off. It's weird how much it affects things.

BTW I don't know about you guys, but anything that BUF is involved in is usually awesome in some way. I think this is established as fact now.

Hope the vast amount of money they presumably lost doing Enter The Void doesn't stop them from doing more amazing stuff in the future. Fingers crossed.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com
 
"Irreversible" was all style and no substance, in my opinion. It seems like he used complex camera work and shocking imagery to compensate for zero story. Noe even admits that he got the idea to play the movie backwards after watching "Memento". But whereas Nolan's technique helped put us in the character's experience (short term memory loss), Noe's imitation merely tricks the audience into watching an artistic snuff film.

But I'm sure "Enter the Void" is brilliant...
 
I've seen it (HD version via cable). I definitely loved the concept, visuals, and direction, but thought 30 to 60 minutes could have been cut and it still would have had the same effect... Of course it doesn't help that you kind of know exactly where the movie is headed in the first 15mins. I got the impression that Noe's intention was that people would get high and then watch the movie; its very psychedelic in both the visuals and sound design...

...Technically, there's some stuff I'm still not sure how they did (whether it was done in post or with lighting.)

EDIT: I just read Julio's comment; Enter the Void is very much the same (style over substance). There is a story thread/arc, but it's fairly weak and drawn out to be over 2.5hours.
 
Amazing credit sequence. I think I grew tired of the floating omniscient camera 2/3 of the way through IRREVERSIBLE, and this film picked up right where it left off. - Very technically impressive, but lots of floaty coming and going to story points sort of wore me out. Gaspar Noe certainly has distinctive style and has original ideas in cinema, but as mentioned before you have to be in the right mood for it. Just my own opinion.
 
Are some people getting confused between 'Touching the void' and 'Enter the void', I wouldnt consider Enter the void a documentary re-enactment ;)

I have to say I am always interested in what Noe is doing, he is an exciting filmmaker. He has some interesting ideas and the film was visually interesting but I got really frustrated not seeing the face of the protagonist (except for a reflection in the mirror). He then spent all his time in an Outer body experience shot, which again isolated the audience. I think it would have been an amazing short form piece, didnt work as a feature.
 
Really hated Irreversible, but I actually liked Enter the Void quite a bit. It doesn't entirely hold together, and it still plays like it was written by a teenager, but from a visual and aural perspective, it's incredibly stunning. Amazing opening credits sequence to boot.
 
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