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Film Review: Enter the Void
2009’s Enter the Void is the third film I’ve seen by Argentine director Gaspar Noé, the other two being Irreversible and I Stand Alone. It’s my favorite of the three. This post is long overdue, as I saw, and was blown away by, it several months ago.
From the very beginning, with its blaringly colorful, garishly flashy, epileptic seizure-inducing opening titles, Enter the Void is obviously striving to do something visually very different and impactive, aiming for sensory overload and trippy, mind-bending experiences. And it succeeds. Destined for controversy and plenty of hate due to its graphic sexual content and themes, I think few people would deny that visually it’s fascinating and innovative.