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DVD: Enter the Void

DVD: Enter the Void

Gaspar Noé's latest is visually explosive, thought-provoking - and a bit self-indulgent

'Enter the Void': More than just a visually astounding extravaganza

It always amazes me that so many commentators dismiss drug experiences as somehow puerile, irrelevant, or even immature. Of course they can be all three but they're also integrally wrapped up in being human, in one's body, alive, so they can also be very much else.

It always amazes me that so many commentators dismiss drug experiences as somehow puerile, irrelevant, or even immature. Of course they can be all three but they're also integrally wrapped up in being human, in one's body, alive, so they can also be very much else.

At one level this is watchable purely as a naughty all-nighter treat. At another, it runs much deeper

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