How is enter the void filmed

The role of Linda was the first to be cast. She had the profile for the character because she likes screaming, crying, showing herself naked—all the qualities for it. Cyril Roy went to an audition with a friend only because he wanted to talk with the director, whose previous films he admired.

They're easy-going people, they have a good time in front of the camera and I don't think there was a single moment where either of them felt they were working. Paz, however, was definitely conscious of the fact that she was interpreting a role. Later, when the director was already planning the film, he tried the psychoactive brew ayahuasca , in which the active substance is DMT. This was done in the Peruvian jungle, where the brew is legal due to its traditional use as an entheogen.

Another important stylistic influence was the experimental oeuvre of Kenneth Anger , and in particular Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome. Other influences from experimental cinema included the works of Jordan Belson and Peter Tscherkassky. There were two reasons for showing Oscar's head and shoulders within the frame during the flashback scenes, rather than letting the camera be the character's eyes.

He also thought it would be easier for the viewer to care about a character who is visible, as many point-of-view films, in his opinion, look unintentionally funny. The crew filmed in Tokyo from 19 October to 15 December Flashback scenes were shot in Montreal over the course of four weeks the following spring, until 16 May The page screenplay detailed plot developments and many of the visual traits, but very little dialogue was scripted, so the actors were asked to improvise their lines.

I think the energy has to come on the set at the very last minute. Criminal organisations were not involved in the actual production.

Some of the overhead sequences took a full day to arrange and film. The film was mainly shot on Kodak Vision3 D film stock. Thanks to Tokyo's many neon signs, very little additional lighting was required for the exterior scenes, despite the fact that many were shot late at night.

For the interior scenes Debie mainly used practical, in-frame light sources. Some exceptions were made. One was that the moods of the characters were meant to be indicated by different colours, ranging from orange to purple with occasional greens.

For this Debie used a set of red, green, and blue programmable disco lights , which allowed for all different hues. The disco lights were easy to hide. They were also used for simulation of neon flashes, and to add a tint of red to the dressing-room scenes. Another exception was the use of strobe lights , which were programmed together with the coloured lights. Blue colour was avoided throughout, since the filmmakers did not associate it with dreams. In those scenes the camera was held by Debie.

Enter the Void' s post-production process lasted more than a year. Every scene in the film includes computer-generated imagery CGI —even the flashback scenes, where the backdrops were digitally altered.

Neon lights, reflections, and dark areas were consistently accentuated. Flickers were created through a mixture of motion blur , chromatic aberration , and focus effects. For scenes seen as through a fisheye lens , the team recreated the sets digitally and progressively increased the environments' reflection values along with the lens effect. Bangalter was occupied with work on Tron: Legacy and had to decline. When the film premiered at film festivals, it was initially shown in a version without any credits.

A minute version of the film competed in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival. So I had to put it back into my belly, that is to say to tweak many details. The running time was therefore minutes at 25 frames per second, which the director had instructed that the film should be played at, or minutes at the more common 24 frames per second. He describes it as "some astro-visions, an orgy scene with Linda and the Japanese girl, the scene where you see [Oscar] waking up at the morgue and he thinks he's alive but he's not, and then the camera goes down the plughole where she's tipping his ashes.

Each edition features both the complete version and the shorter cut. Thomas Sotinel of Le Monde started his review by recalling the irritation the film caused upon its world premiere in Cannes, and compared the cut he had seen there to the final version: "In all honesty, the difference does not jump to my eyes.

Of course, the film seems more consistent, but that may be because we've already traveled this maze once. While leaving, we might remain calmer, but still amazed by the mixture of exuberant invention and puerility. He applauded how he found the strobe lights hypnotising in a way that influenced the perception of time.

Soporific cinema. Upon the Japanese release, the critic writing for The Japan Times reflected: "If Lost in Translation is the film you'd make when all you know about Japan are the pampered press junkets at Shinjuku 5-star hotels, then Enter the Void is what you would make if you never got beyond the Roppongi pub-crawl. But despite its querulous melodrama and crazed Freudian pedantries, it has a human purpose the previous film lacked, and its sheer deranged brilliance is magnificent. Male called it "technically stunning", but also "dreadfully acted, tediously 'profound' and painfully overlong", and accused the director of misogyny.

She thought the characters lacked emotional depth and called the story "a lame fusion of stoner lifestyle, sexual fetish, and philosophical inquiry", but still ended the review: "I could stare at this movie for days and not get tired of the sensation.

A mash-up of the sacred, the profane, and the brain-dead, Enter the Void is addictive. And no, the fact that it's intentionally excruciating doesn't make it less excruciating. The film was a financial failure; according to Wild Bunch in February , the film had returned 1. Moviepedia Explore. Help Out. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Enter the Void. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Paz de la Huerta Linda as Linda. Cyril Roy Alex as Alex. Olly Alexander Victor as Victor.

Masato Tanno Mario as Mario. Ed Spear Bruno as Bruno. Nobu Imai Tito as Tito. Sakiko Fukuhara Saki as Saki. Emi Takeuchi Carol as Carol as Yemi. Rumiko Kimishima Rumi as Rumi. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit.

Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly.

And what of afterlife, is there more than a void? Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia Most of the dialogue was improvised by the cast. Quotes Alex : Basically, when you die your spirit leaves your body, actually at first you can see all your life, like reflected in a magic mirror.

Alternate versions In some countries, the theatrical release was shortened by omitting reel 7 of 9. This removed 17 minutes of material. Connections Featured in Durch die Nacht mit User reviews Review.

Top review. At two and a half hours long, this film is definitely not for everyone. But I knew that going in and got exactly what I'd hoped for and more. It's trippy, dreamy, and mesmerizing and left me shaking my head in wonder many times.

Startling and risky performances punctuate the dazzling visuals. The biggest surprise for me: "Enter the Void" has much more of a narrative than I was expecting. I was prepared for a cinematic acid trip, which I got, but there is an actual storyline which threads through the experimental camera-work and effects which are at the heart of the film. I highly recommend this movie but with qualifications, though. There is a great deal of drug use and some explicit sex but the film is compelling.