The deal quickly goes wrong. Cornered by police in a bathroom stall, Oscar is fatally shot. But instead of credits rolling, the film’s true premise begins. True to a promise he made to his sister as a child—never to leave her—Oscar’s spirit lingers. From this point on, the camera adopts the first-person point of view (POV) of his disembodied soul, free to float through walls, soar above the glowing Tokyo skyline, and witness the lives of those he’s left behind, including his grieving sister.
Romain Goupil, Christina Milou, Pascal Cervo enter the void -2009-
Upon its release, Enter the Void divided critics and audiences down the middle. Some dismissed it as a self-indulgent, overlong exercise in style over substance, criticizing its graphic sexual content and bleak worldview. Others hailed it as a masterpiece of visionary cinema, praising Noé for pushing the technical boundaries of the medium to express concepts that usually elude film. The deal quickly goes wrong