In an era of sanitized, algorithm-driven content, Gaspar Noé made a film that is raw, bleeding, and utterly human. It asks the big questions: What happens when we die? What do we leave behind? Is love just a chemical reaction, or is it the only thread that ties us to Earth?
You will either turn it off in 20 minutes, or you will emerge from the other side a fundamentally different person. There is no middle ground. The plot is deceptively simple: Oscar, a small-time American drug dealer living in the chaotic, pulsating heart of Tokyo, is shot dead by police during a botched sting operation. enter the void -2009-
But the movie doesn't end. It begins.