“He’s a good, sane director,” he says, “with a special way of looking at things.”Īs for the Oscar, that’s currently in Ivory’s New York apartment.
“It’s sitting at a window where all kinds of people could see it if they bothered to look across. Do you know the funny thing about an Oscar? It’s exactly the right weight for a dumbbell. Call Me By Your Name is out now on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download.Drugs, dicks, DMT, death and Asians.So if you had two of them, you could do a pretty good work-out.” So he’ll just have to hurry up and win another. All these and more make up the French-directed, American-acted experimental film “Enter the Void.” “Enter the Void” is the brainchild of director Gaspar Noé, a man known for his dark, gritty and sometimes violent style of story-telling.
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But what makes this movie so captivating and unique is not its narrative or even really its themes it’s the psychedelic cinematography and visual style.Ĭentered around a drug-dealer/DMT-enthusiast living on the electrified avenues of downtown Tokyo, this nearly three-hour rollercoaster of a film can only be described as a visually-provocative treatise on the greed, darkness and perversions of the human condition. The entire movie is shot in first-person from the perspective of the drug dealer. The camera blinks in sync with the character - his thoughts are heard as ubiquitous echoes. Even as he smokes DMT and slips into a psychedelic trance we trip with him and see what he sees. A sporadically plotted, visually stunning, sexualized and surrealistic phantasmagoria, this movie is perfect for cinephiles looking to wet their feet in the darker fringes of Netflix.