New On Netflix: Enter The Void

Gaspar Noe’s punch-drunk phantasmagoria is the kind of movie that happens when a filmmaker already known for eccentricity and perhaps full-blown gonzo madness gets to do his “dream project” — thankfully, in this case, it’s a thrilling piece of guerilla cinema that all but dares every other filmmaker out there to step up to the plate and do something really crazy with that camera in their hand. Enter the Void follows the postmortem adventures of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), an American drug dealer in Tokyo shot and killed by police during a raid who embarks on what Noe himself calls a “psychedelic melodrama” as he floats around as a disembodied spirit, keeping watch over his hot sister (Paz de la Huerta of Boardwalk Empire) and occasionally entering people’s minds to observe their dreams. It’s bizarre, it’s amazing, and it could only have come from the man who previously gave us the equally mesmerizing Irreversible.