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@Zer is up this week and having now actually seen the film, I'll just say . . . well, it was a very Zer sort of week. So let's begin our discussion of Enter the Void.
GASPER NOE is an Argentinian film director who currently lives in France. He is best known for the films I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void and Love.
Noe cites the films of Stanley Kubrick as his primary inspiration, saying that the experience of watching 2001: A Space Odyssey at the age of seven changed his life, and that without it he would never have become a director.
According to Wikipedia:
Nathaniel Brown: www.imdb.com/name/nm1140926
Paz de la Huerta: www.imdb.com/name/nm0209289
Cyril Roy: www.imdb.com/name/nm3026521
Masato Tanno: www.imdb.com/name/nm0849755
Premise: A U.S. 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.
Budget: $16 Million
Box Office: $1.5 Million
* Most of the dialogue was improvised by the cast. Gaspar Noé stated that, as he didn't understand English very much, he needed someone to tell him if what the cast was saying sounded good or not.
* The film received a 15 minute standing ovation in Cannes.
* Gaspar Noé was inspired by the famous "star gate" sequence in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). For creating the special trippy atmosphere, the Norwegian VJ artist Glennwiz (Glenn Jacobsen) was contacted for use of one of his videos.
* Gaspar Noé planned Enter the Void (2009) over a period of 15 years - before his short film Carne (1991). He was around 23 years old, when he saw Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake (1947) on drugs. The film is shot in subjective camera, entirely from the point of view of the main character. For Enter the Void, Noé uses a subjective camera in the same manner. The main character Oscar is seen just once while the character is alive (in a mirror.)
* The ambient score of the film was assembled from existing music and sound sources collected by Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk, whom Noé really wanted to compose the film's score but couldn't because Disney already tapped Daft Punk for the soundtrack of TRON: Legacy (2010)' at the time.
* After the Cannes Film Festival the post-production continued. Sensory, visual and auditory elements were accentuated. Gaspar Noé edited out 4 minutes of the film and added opening credits (about 2 minutes). The final, definitive version was presented for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival, January 2010.
* During the Cannes Film Festival 2008, the distributor Wild Bunch presented the first teaser-trailers of "Enter The Void", one year before the film was shown in competition 2009 at this Festival. The press book contains, beside the usual synopsis a note of Gaspar Noé. This director's note begins with a quote from Steven Spielberg: "Making a film is difficult, but making a great film is an almost impossible task."
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@Zer is up this week and having now actually seen the film, I'll just say . . . well, it was a very Zer sort of week. So let's begin our discussion of Enter the Void.
Our Director
GASPER NOE is an Argentinian film director who currently lives in France. He is best known for the films I Stand Alone, Irréversible, Enter the Void and Love.
Noe cites the films of Stanley Kubrick as his primary inspiration, saying that the experience of watching 2001: A Space Odyssey at the age of seven changed his life, and that without it he would never have become a director.
According to Wikipedia:
His work has been strongly associated with a series of films defined as the cinéma du corps/cinema of the body, which according to Tim Palmer share an attenuated use of narrative, generally assaulting and often illegible cinematography, confrontational subject material, a treatment of sexual behavior as violent rather than mutually intimate, and a pervasive sense of social nihilism or despair.[4]
Noé often breaks the fourth wall by directly addressing the audience through the use of confronting, and sometimes strobing, typography that aims to "disrupt and disturb" the viewer, similar to the typographical methods practised by Jean-Luc Godard.
Our Stars
Nathaniel Brown: www.imdb.com/name/nm1140926
Paz de la Huerta: www.imdb.com/name/nm0209289
Cyril Roy: www.imdb.com/name/nm3026521
Masato Tanno: www.imdb.com/name/nm0849755
Film Overview and YouTube Videos
Premise: A U.S. 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.
Budget: $16 Million
Box Office: $1.5 Million
Trivia
(courtesy of IMDB)
(courtesy of IMDB)
* Most of the dialogue was improvised by the cast. Gaspar Noé stated that, as he didn't understand English very much, he needed someone to tell him if what the cast was saying sounded good or not.
* The film received a 15 minute standing ovation in Cannes.
* Gaspar Noé was inspired by the famous "star gate" sequence in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). For creating the special trippy atmosphere, the Norwegian VJ artist Glennwiz (Glenn Jacobsen) was contacted for use of one of his videos.
* Gaspar Noé planned Enter the Void (2009) over a period of 15 years - before his short film Carne (1991). He was around 23 years old, when he saw Robert Montgomery's Lady in the Lake (1947) on drugs. The film is shot in subjective camera, entirely from the point of view of the main character. For Enter the Void, Noé uses a subjective camera in the same manner. The main character Oscar is seen just once while the character is alive (in a mirror.)
* The ambient score of the film was assembled from existing music and sound sources collected by Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk, whom Noé really wanted to compose the film's score but couldn't because Disney already tapped Daft Punk for the soundtrack of TRON: Legacy (2010)' at the time.
* After the Cannes Film Festival the post-production continued. Sensory, visual and auditory elements were accentuated. Gaspar Noé edited out 4 minutes of the film and added opening credits (about 2 minutes). The final, definitive version was presented for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival, January 2010.
* During the Cannes Film Festival 2008, the distributor Wild Bunch presented the first teaser-trailers of "Enter The Void", one year before the film was shown in competition 2009 at this Festival. The press book contains, beside the usual synopsis a note of Gaspar Noé. This director's note begins with a quote from Steven Spielberg: "Making a film is difficult, but making a great film is an almost impossible task."
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