Gaspar Noé on Enter The Void

[MrVinushka]

LOL what a pointless interview. Way to not ask a single interesting question.

[OhNoItsGojira]

@nothingness36 No, he certainly didn't. I was referencing the obvious extrapolations in cinematography in Gaspar's films and his open references to trying to emulate him. It's pretty sad actually.

[TPsynth]

@OhNoItsGojira that is crazy-talk...all directors are influenced by other directors. I do not see emulation here but appreciation. This film is not constructed like a Kubrick film. Sorry but Kubrick does not own the right to the floating camera angle he was copying Sergei Eisenstein himself. Any film that takes such a broad epic approach to the meaning (or lack thereof) of life and death is going to get compared to 2001:a space odyssey.Noel loves Lynch and Kubrick , id be worried if he didn't.

[OhNoItsGojira]

Oh wow. Another filmmaker who wants to be Stanley Kubrick. 

[bennyfromthe72]

@OhNoItsGojira Maybe you should watch Irreversible and Enter The Void before saying such crap.

[OhNoItsGojira]

@bennyfromthe72 I have seen them both. Please provide a point to your comment.

[MrJumbolegz]

gaspar is great. interviewers always try to make him apologize for something and he just never does. awesome.

[cloudig]

good movie but It did drag on a bit, slightly monotonous at times. Nevertheless gaspar is a legend

[ktdsound]

He looks so tired all the time. Must be a super-busy guy. He's probably recovering from the meticulous detail he created in "Enter the Void."

[MrAdriano]

@cupcakes777 Yes, Tarantino makes homages to film, but he uses those conventions and stereotypes for a purpose besides style. He analyzes them. There are so few directors who understand the importance of balancing and analyzing conventions. Don't discredit his merit because he doesn't shoot for realism. All directors use different tools. If you want to condemn anyone for being conventional and using style over substance, condemn Michael Bay or Brett Ratner.

[Anonymous3991]

Secks is secks is secks, is secks, is secks.... is secks....

[RAMBOhhh]

This interview sucked.

The movie is interesting though.

[jacob7207]

Drugs, no sex, no rock and roll. Peace.

[noirsociety]

arguably the best director in recent years along with nicolas winding refn

[popou]

@noirsociety I'll drink to that!

[myothercariseva01]

Didn't enjoy the movie, intended for the general public to experience something very easy to grasp if you allow yourself to think. This man is a genius though.

[hashwizzard]

paz is so damn hot

[amsunny009]

@cupcakes777 i absolutely agree with you :)

[crookedmouth123]

Sex is sex... no it isn't sex is eggs, sometimes eggs on toast. dumb cunt.

[drplbiftin]

great guy, great director, great films - but can't understand this interview because of his mumbling.

[whatitischief]

I know 3D is a gimmicky thing for most movies. but wouldn't this have been awesome in 3D? the dmt trip at the beggining and the astral projections etc?

[GlassBeard]

@whatitischief Yeah because that giant cumshot at the end would have been just rad.

[jrockluv]

I find this movie more of a form of art because hes trying to express and portray death. obviously death isnt something we can see but it makes it scary to think about. Suicide Club is retarded. so if u think Suicide Club is better than this, then wow u must really hate life..which is stupid cuz life isnt something u learn in a day >:)

[EmmanuelThomas02]

gaspard auge cousin lol

[Paperhouse81]

The interviewer is a dumb fuck. His questions were extremely banal and superficial. Filmmakers, like musicians, are torn and complicated. Their work has so many different reasons and elements that it is sometimes unbearable to understand.  The sex and violence in Irreversible were just the surface of the actual movie itself. TIME was basically the plot.

[ph03n1xamb1t]

@Paperhouse81

You consider yourself torn and complicated yet all you have to say about irreversible is " TIME was basically the plot.". You fucking child. Fuck off

[cliklab]

Interviewer is a full blown dumb shit!

I'd like to see Gaspar crack open the face of the interviewer, with the butt of a fire extinguisher.

[DRrox92]

@cliklab

oh hell yeah.

[jovialduke]

@cliklab and without the use of cgi ;)

[MrJamesohh]

Saw this movie after a very large weekend, but still is best movie i have ever seen.

[Meteotrance]

the script of this movie is so stupid if your die you cannot feel the effect of drugs or pain anymore ^^ !!! i prefer to see a film like Suicide Club from Sion Sono that this stupid piece of shit with strobo effect, it must make epilepsy warning.

[cliklab]

@Meteotrance. how can you make the statement with absolute certainty, what you can or cannot feel when dead? And how does a Japanese "ghost story"/horror movie like Suicide Club satisfy your criteria for a movie which is not "stupid"? I have not seen Enter the Void yet. I can't wait. Love or hate Gaspar Noe's films, but both he and his films are far from stupid.

[BriggoTheKat]

I can't help it: I'm starting to feel like all the troops will come home and cannabis will be legalized before "Enter The Void" is ever released in the US.

[artsfiend]

@BriggoTheKat In breaking news, the US government has allowed the troops to come home so that they can smoke pot and watch Enter the Void.... sadly too awesome to ever happen :(

[alexpara1984]

i am waiting for this movie for half an year but nothing.when it appears?

[DallaVisions]

just saw it at sundance....soooo tight

[ribtin]

I love his response to the question about "explicit sex scenes"!

[SevereRepugnance]

Need to see this, "Irreversible" and "I Stand Alone" are classics

[pbchrist]

when in the US? DVD or otherwise?

[calumjlindsay]

i appreciate noe films, but the thing is, even though they're well filmed and innovative, it all seems a bit too pleased with itself - it's kind of like haneke films, they almost exist just to tell you off for watching them. and it just wallows in the nastiness as well, he just seems to want to be as dark as possible, but i don't think 'wanting to show a darker side of human nature' is anything new, he just does it in the most shocking way he can.

[DonegalPALL]

@calumjlindsay I completely disagree that they exist to tell you off for watching them, if you listen to journalists enough going on then maybe it comes across that way i dunno, Noes short for Destricted i find like that but i think that is a point of it.

His films may be shocking but thats not the point of his films.

I cannot wait to see Enter The Void

[calumjlindsay]

what do you think the point is then? in irreversible there's a nine minute shot of monica bellici being visiously raped. i don't think that there's a point to his films other than 'people are brutal', which i think is pretty adolescent. i have no problem with darkness and brutality in films, but the worst kinds of films are exploitation films that can't admit it and have a pretence of some kind of greater meaning or beauty.

[timsta88]

who wouldnt want to see monica belucci raped?

[railroadwino]

I agree to an extent, but I saw Enter the Void at SXSW in Austin and I gotta say that his technique is so innovative and original that I was able to overlook his juvenile need to put disturbing shit up on the screen. Of course psychadelic visuals have been done before, but never like this. Talking to everyone on the way out, we all agreed that we were very happy we waited the 2 hours in line to see it yet we're not sure if we'd ever want to see it again to make sense of it all. That powerful.

[GARETHA77]

WHEN?!

[Lykathea13]

That might the most awkward reaction I've heard so far on noé. He "masks" it by actually showing it, yet you want him to actually MASK it by not showing it. Weirdness.

[NormaJean337]

cant wait to see this

[CerpinTaxt1983]

That man is a genius. Long live Gasper Noe

[kingsod]

Guys a genuis

[amjiva]

I spent a bit of time in my younger years trying to have an out of body experience. I also never had one, but I've met people who claim to have. I can't wait to see Enter The Void.