Enter The Void International Trailer

I don't think there's been a more divisive movie in the past year than Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void. It premiered (in hastily finished form) at Cannes last year and has done festival circuits since. IFC bought the film for US distribution, but before it opens here it is getting a real release in France, which is the reason for the trailer we have today. It is vaguely NSFW, thanks to shots of a few dancers, but they're lit and edited in a way that most viewers should be able to use their discretion and get away with it.

The trailer comes courtesy of Twitch, and does a great job of representing both the unusual and rather intimate aspects of the film and also the angle that leads some to call it indulgent and pretentious. You'll get only a hint of story here, but that's enough for me.

I'm totally drawn in by the style on display here — the color, the relentless motion, the stroboscopic effect. And I love the shots of Tokyo streets that look like toy model sets. (And almost could be, for all I know.)

Here's the recap synopsis, and under this trailer you can see the crazed opening titles for the movie, which really pull out all the stops.

Oscar and his sister Linda, recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar is a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister – that he would never abandon her – refuses to abandon the world of the living.  His spirit wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.