ENTER THE VOID (France)
The Story:
Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), and his sister Linda (Paz de la Huerta) are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar’s a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. Oscar gets a phone call from his English friend Victor (Olly Alexander) asking him to bring his drugs to a local bar called The Void. He is joined by his Alex (Cyril Roy), a drug buddy of Oscar’s whom Linda disapproves of.
But when Oscar walks into the bar, he realises that it is a setup and the police chase him into the toilet, eventually shooting him dead.
Instead of dying, his spirit or something floats above his body, which is now curled around a urinal like a fetus. And it keeps floating higher and higher, hovering above rooms and seemingly passing through walls, only then to fly above the jewel-colored cityscape. And it keeps floating, as Oscar’s memories of his recent past start to collide against memories of his more distant past, particularly his childhood with Linda. His memory fragments make this disembodied character palpable: as they do in life, they help define his horizons and explain who he is and how he came to die.
From then on, Oscar’s spirit can only observe as Alex goes on the run from the police, Linda falls apart after his death and finds that she is pregnant by her clubowner boyfriend Bruno (Cary Hayes) and Victor is racked by guilt at his role in the incident.
Oscar's spirit, faithful to the promise he made to his sister that he would never abandon her - refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.
Starring:
Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Emily Alyn Lind, Jesse Kuhn
Directed By:
Gaspar Noe
Release Year:
2009
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