Credits: screenplay: Gaspar Noé ; director of photography: Benoît Debie; editor: Marc Boucrot, Gaspar Noé; music: Thomas Bangalter; producer: Pierre Buffin, Olivier Delbosc, Vincent Maraval, Marc Missonnier, Gaspar Noé; production company: Fidélité Films, Wild Bunch, BUF;

Country: France, Germany, Italy

Year: 2009

Running time: 143

Colour: Colour

Format: 35 mm

Globalization is glorious, even if decadence hits a new low, in the English-language Enter the Void, directed by adulte terrible Noe (Carne, Irreversible), which takes place in Tokyo, or at least in models of Tokyo..It’s fairly plotless, more character studies of a junkie/drug dealer named Oscar and his stripper sister Linda. Oscar is literally a hovering presence, an overhead narrator. After he is fatally shot by the police and left dying curled around a Turkish-style toilet, Noe takes us completely into Oscar’s mind. Having reached the end of his degenerate young life, he charts Linda’s decline into drugs and violence. The film is more an orgy of style and formal wizardry than one of sex. Howard Feinstein