For all those who remember Irreversible (and if you’ve seen it, how can you forget it?) and for all those who should’ve seen it by now, here’s the first two and a half minutes of writer/director Gaspar Noe‘s follow-up, Enter the Void.
Experience it below:
What the what?! How many people worked on this thing? Or, better yet, how many times were their names repeated in the credits? And with how many different fonts and colors? All good questions, but none as important as this: will Enter the Void live up to the name Noe has made for himself?
The filmmaker has been around for nearly two decades, but omnipresent in film culture since 2002 when he brought the controversial Irreversible to Cannes. His aesthetic has been linked to the James Quandt-coined New French Extremity, in which filmmakers are “determined to break every taboo, to wade in rivers of viscera and spumes of sperm, to fill each frame with flesh, nubile or gnarled, and subject it to all manner of penetration, mutilation, and defilement.”
Noe certainly fits the bill. IFC has plans to release Enter the Void in September. Seek it out if you can stomach it.
Do you like Gaspar Noe? Irreversible? Excited for his next?