ENTER THE VOID ★★★ 1/2 out of four stars
Unrated but includes every kind of objectionable content you can imagine. In English and Japanese, subtitled.
Where: St. Anthony Main.
One-hundred-proof unfiltered weirdness. French provocateur Gaspar Noé's movies are as visceral as a kick in the gut; this psychedelic film noir wallops your head pretty good, too.
Taking inspiration from the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the trippy Stargate sequence in "2001," the film charts a dead pusher's journey beyond the infinite. When a drug deal at the Tokyo nightclub The Void goes sour, mortally wounded Oscar (Nathaniel Brown) achieves cosmic consciousness. His spirit soars over the cityscape; Noé's camera, shooting from Oscar's point of view, captures that neon hell in all its sordid beauty. Riffing through Oscar's life, we see moments of terror, awe and love. Paz de la Huerta plays his sister, an exotic dancer, whom he vowed to protect forever. I've never ridden a breakneck roller coaster while tripping, but I imagine this is what it's like. This a film you'll remember for a lifetime if it doesn't send you screaming out of the theater.
COLIN COVERT
LAST TRAIN HOME
★★★ out of four stars
Unrated; mature themes. In Mandarin, subtitled.