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Capsule summary: Enter the Void
Gaspar Noe is a visually trippy director, and “Enter the Void” shows why. The son of famed Argentine painter Luis Felipe Noe, his movies play out like color-draped dreams, sometimes with out-of-sequence scenes, sometimes with flashbacks and flashforwards.
“Enter the Void” plays with experimental storytelling by centering its narrative in the head of a young man, Oscar, who has been killed during a petty drug deal. Oscar’s spirit isn’t free to move on because he promised his sister Linda, a nightclub stripper, that he would never leave her. So he watches from above and prowls the neon-filled city of Tokyo, where they live.
As American Southerners might say, this movie isn’t normal. But sometimes that’s a good thing.
Noe describes his most famous film, “Irreversible,” as a “trial run” for “Enter the Void.” It played in the official competition in the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and got a mixed critical reception. Its running time: 2 hours, 36 minutes.
Screenings: 11:59 p.m. Monday March 15, Alamo Ritz; 8:30 p.m. Wednesday March 17, Alamo South
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