Uh Oh, It’s Him Again

Irréversible

Enter the Void

Irréversible

Vice

with him for our Film Issue

Total Recall

Vice

a documentary showing on VBS now

Vice: So when we spoke the other day I told you how much I loved this film. Are you happy with it?

Gaspar Noé:

Yeah. I want to see it again.

Why did you cut it?

Right. Hopefully I’ll see it somehow. What’s it like for you to be through with this now, after having wanted to make it for so long? What is it, 20 years since you had your first ideas for this?

Enter the Void

2001, Videodrome, Altered States

How? Sleep deprivation?

It didn’t work?

Gaspar Noé during the filming of the Vice Guide To Film episode in Tokyo

You’re a big fan of Kubrick’s 2001. Did you want to recreate how you feel when you saw that for the first time?

How old were you?

How much has your own drug-taking influenced this film?

One of the most interesting things in the film is the fact that he’s tripping when he dies and he isn’t even sure what’s happening to him. What have you researched in that area, regarding people being on drugs at the moment of death?

The Doors of Perception

Tibetan Book of the Dead

Tibetan Book of the Dead

Were there things you wanted to do with the drug scenes that you thought hadn’t been done well in other films?

Tron

2001.

Samadhi

Bardo

When I spoke to you in January you told me how much you’d really enjoyed the experience of seeing Avatar in 3D. Was that something you were really going for with this film, to push the boundaries and give people a different cinematic experience?

Seul Contre Tous

Irréversible

You’ve said that Irréversible was in some ways a trial run for this film.

Enter the Void

Enter the Void

Irréversible

Did it make you more confident to do what you then wanted to do?

Irréversible

Enter the Void

Enter the Void

Irréversible

Irréversible

Irréversible

Did you do everything you wanted to do with this film?

What were the ideas you didn’t get to do?

Tron

Tron

Tron

Tron

So there’s nothing you’d add to the film now if you had the chance?

Irréversible

Vice CEO Shane Smith and Gaspar Noé in Cannes for the Vice Guide to Film episode.

How did Enter the Void go down in France?

Have you had any censorship problems with the film?

Yeah, they do that, don’t they?

OK. So how far are you with the erotic film you want to do?

Are you doing it next?

What will make it different from other erotic movies?

Probably not.

Well, that’s good. Do you think you’ll be using similar filmmaking techniques again?

is released in the UK on September 24.