Enter the Void - Cast & Crew

  “Making a film is difficult, but making a great film is an almost impossible task.”

This quote from Spielberg is perhaps not completely accurate, but that’s how I remember it. However, some examples of great films do exist, including the film which had such an influence on my existence: 2001, A Space Odyssey. Without professing to be able to create such a masterpiece, trying to make a film that is, at the same time, a large-scale entertainment, suitable for adults and complex in cinematic terms, is one of the most exciting undertakings one could wish to tackle. And if one does not set out with the aim of making a great film, one can be sure that it will not turn out to be one.

Few of the arts can satisfy man’s need to be uplifted as immediately as film. And none (except interactive video games) can yet reproduce the maelstrom of our states of perception and consciousness.

In the past, certain films have tried to adopt the subjective point of view of the main character. enter the void will try to improve upon its predecessors and accompany the hero just as much in his normal state of awareness as in his altered states: the state of alertness, the stream of consciousness, memories, dreams...

The visions described in the script are inspired partly by the accounts of people who have had near-death experiences, who describe a tunnel of light, seeing their lives flashing past them and ‘astral’ visions, and partly by similar hallucinatory experiences obtained by consuming DMT, the molecule which the brain sometimes secretes at the moment of death and which, in small doses, enables us to dream at night.

The film should sometimes scare the audience, make it cry and, as much as possible, hypnotise it.

In recent years, films with labyrinthine structures have proved the audience’s ability to follow storylines in the form of a puzzle, and its desire to move away from linear narration.

But a complex form where the content does not move the spectator in any way would only amount to mathematic virtuosity. Whereas this film is above all a melodrama: the universal melodrama of a young man who, after the brutal death of his parents, promises that he will protect his little sister no matter what and who, sensing that he himself is dying, fights desperately to keep his promise. A film where the life of one person is linked to the love he has for another human being.

The reason for choosing the most modern areas of Tokyo as a setting is to further emphasize the fragility of the brother and sister by propelling them like two small balls in a giant pinball machine made up of black, white and fluorescent colours.

My previous two films, which were far less ambitious, were once described by a critic as being like roller coasters playing with the most reptilian desires and fears of the spectator. enter the void, whose themes and artistic choices will be far more varied and colourful, should, if I succeed, be the Magic Mountain which I, as a spectator, dream of riding on."

Gaspar Noé

Director : Gaspar Noé
Screenplay :Gaspar Noé
VFX Artistic Director : Pierre Buffin
VFX Supervisor : Geoffrey Niquet
VFX Producer : Nicolas Delval
Director Of Photography : Benoit Debie
Camera : Gaspar Noé
Key Grip : Akira Kanno
Camera Assistants : Yasushi Miyata, Jacques Bernier
Assistant Directors : Jimbo Hideaki, Toshio Hanaoka, Michael Williams
Location Managers : Masahiro Hondo, Lucio Tomaro
Editors : Gaspar Noé, Marc Boucrot, Jérôme Pesnel
Sound Effects Director : Thomas Bangalter
Sound Designer : Ken Yasumoto
Sound Mixers : Ryotaro Harada, Claude Lahaye
RE-Recording Mixer : Lars Ginzel
ART Supervisor : Marc Caro
Production Designers : Kikuo Ohta, Jean Carrière
Costume Designers : Tony Crosbie, Nicoletta Massone
Line Producer France : Olivier Thery Lapiney
Production Coordinator : Karine D’hont
Line Producer Tokyo : Georgina Pope - Twenty First City
Production Manager : Shin Yamaguchi
Production Coordinator : Masa Kokubo
Line Producer Montreal : Suzanne Girard - BBR Production
Production Manager : Jose Lacelle
Producers : Brahim Chioua & Vincent Maraval - Wild Bunch, Olivier Delbosc & Marc Missonnier - Fidélité Films, Pierre Buffin - Buf Compagnie, Gaspar Noé - Les Cinémas De La Zone

Associate Producers : Philippe Bober - Essential Filmproduktion
Valerio De Paolis - Bim Distribuzione, Nicolas Leclerq - Paranoid Films
With the participation of Canal +
With the support of Eurimages, Ministère De La Culture Et De La Communication, (CNC), Filmförderungsanstalt (Ffa)
International Sales : Wild Bunch

Cast :

NATHANIEL BROWN : OSCAR
PAZ DE LA HUERTA : LINDA
CYRIL ROY : ALEX
EMILY ALYN LIND : LITTLE LINDA
JESSE KUHN : LITTLE OSCAR
OLLY ALEXANDER : VICTOR
MASATO TANNO : MARIO
ED SPEAR : BRUNO
SARA STOCKBRIDGE : SUZIE
SAKIKO FUKUHARA : SAKI
NOBU IMAI : TITO
EMI TAKEUCHI : CAROL
JANICE SICOTTE-BELIVEAU : MOTHER

Year of production : 2007-2008

Release date : 22 May 2009 (Festival de Cannes 2009) - 5 May 2010 (France)

Japan : 15 May 2010

Belgique: 15 July 2010

Germany : 26 August 2010

USA & UK : 24 September 2010

Filming dates : October 19, 2007 - December 15, 2007 (for Japan) ~~~ April/May 2008 - May 16, 2008 (for Canada)

Video release : 1st December 2010 (France - Wild Side - blu-ray/dvd)

Filming locations :Tokyo & Toho studio (Japan - 2007) - Montréal (Québec, Canada - 2008)

Language : English/Japanese

Business : €10,000,000

Runtime : France : 163 min (Cannes Film Festival) | 155 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | 156 min (Sitges Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya - BFI London - Sundance Film Festival)

Aspect ratio : 2,35:1 - 35mm color

Official website :www.enterthevoid-lefilm.com - IMDB - Wild Bunch -

Wild Bunch Distribution

 "Both Olly Alexander & Sara Stockbridge fly out to Tokyo in this month to start shooting on award-winning director, Gaspar Noe’s new feature ‘Enter The Void’. Shooting commences on the 19th October .
This is the third film from critically acclaimed director Gaspar Noe of "Irreversible" with Olly shooting the lead role of 'Victor' and Sara Stockbridge playing his mother, 'Suzy'."  (www.curtisbrown.co.uk)

"Both Olly Alexander & Sara Stockbridge continue shooting on award-winning director, Gaspar Noe’s new feature ‘Enter The Void’. Shooting finishes on the 15th December." (www.curtisbrown.co.uk) 

Premiers communiqués officiels concernant une partie du casting d'Enter the Void

NATHANIEL BROWN (read the exclusive interview)

(Oscar, le frère de Linda)

PAZ DE LA HUERTA

(Linda, la soeur d'Oscar)

Paz de la Huerta (born September 3, 1984) is an American actress, model, and filmmaker based in New York's TriBeCa neighborhood.

Born and raised in New York City, de la Huerta has been acting since the age of four, having trained at the SoHo Children's Acting Studio. She has a sister, Rafaela (Rafa) born in 1982. She graduated from Saint Ann's School and speaks French, Spanish and English fluently. De la Huerta has modeled in campaigns for Alberta Ferretti, UNIQLO, and Wolford. She appeared on the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine in October of 2003.

Aside from acting, Paz is a skilled artist, designer, and writer who enjoys listening to punk rock music. Her father lives on a ranch in Spain and her mother works for the UN, helping with birth control in third-world countries. She currently resides in Tribeca, New York, with her mother and sister.

(Wikipedia)

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CYRIL ROY

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MASATO TANNO

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OLLY ALEXANDER [also called Olly Thornton] 

(Victor, Oscar's friend)

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ED SPEAR (read the exclusive interview)

SARA STOCKBRIDGE

(Suzy, Victor's mother)

Sara Stockbridge (born 1966 in Woking, England) achieved a certain level of high fashion notoriety in the mid to late 1980s as the muse of designer Vivenne Westwood. Bleached Blonde and green-eyed, she epitomized Westwood's obsession with Royal style at the time, often seen out in a velvet and tweed crown based on the one Queen Elizabeth II wears. Stockbridge's naughty take on Marilyn Monroe, with smudged red lipstick, hair worn up in pin-curls, tight sweaters and heels was one of the iconic 'looks' of the late 80s.

She was featured on the cover of i-d magazine and Blitz magazine among others, though she was never fully embraced by the more mainstream high-fashion world. Her modelling career was cut short by the birth of her son, max, in 1990.

Stockbridge is still active in the modelling / acting world, and recently she returned for appearances on Westwood's runways, and in British Vogue as her muse. She has recently completed her first novel, due to be published by the end of this year, and has been given a contract to write another book. (Wikipedia)