20. Enter The Void
Gaspar Noe's long-awaited follow-up to his highly controversial 2002 film Irréversible is a masterpiece of directorial craft, a hallucinogenic drug movie by way of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. After a young man, Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), is mortally wounded by the police, he begins to experience his life flashing before his eyes in one final, 2-hour trip. From its astounding opening credits sequence, Enter The Void is a visually stunning, deeply challenging odyssey which, while not to all tastes, sees Noe delivering one of the most ambitious films from any country of the last ten years. The sheer array of mind-boggling "how did he do this!?" shots makes it required viewing for any film buff, and for those prepared to stick with the director's surreal, often demented vision, it's pretty much a masterpiece.
