Enter the Void

Gaspar Noé’s psychedelic, unflinching journey through life and death, a defining work of New French Extremity set in neon-soaked Tokyo.

Enter the Void is shot from the point of view of Oscar, an American drug dealer in Tokyo. Killed by police after a drug bust, Oscar’s spirit journeys from the past – where he sees his parents before their deaths – to the present, witnessing his own autopsy, and then into the future. This dazzling film traces the sensory perceptions of his soul, ‘living’ the ultimate out-of-body experience: death.

The immediacy of Gaspar Noé's sensory roller-coaster of a film lies in Oscar's longing for a return to the way he and his sister were in childhood - before the drugs, before Tokyo. By the end, we are moved, shaken, and a little queasy, as if we've been to hell and back.