Gaspar Noé's 'Enter The Void': Down To The Wire For Completion At Cannes

We corresponded with Jeffrey Wells this morning and compared notes. We both wrote the international press contacts for Gaspar Noé’s new picture “Enter The Void,” which screens near the end of the Cannes Film Festival on May 22, hoping to potentially see it earlier at any possible market screenings, but were both told the same thing: there would be no market screenings (by the way, here’s the film’s excellent new poster, update: the old poster we had up was fan made, thanks to the reader for the tip).

Apparently Noé is working down to the wire to the have the film completed in time for its Cannes screening. In fact, we were told that the film would likely be finished the day before it screened! That’s almost certainly the reason why they scheduled it so late in the Festival’s line-up.

“The film is expected only to be completed the previous day. So sorry, this is not going to be possible,” the publicist wrote Wells in a very similar response to what he wrote us (better quote him than us, in case someone gets annoyed).

Sucks for us. Looks like there’s no chance for us to see the picture until it gets picked up for U.S. distribution and often with Cannes films that doesn’t happen until the following year. Will we have to wait until 2010? Unless TIFF or the New York Film Festival runs it in North America? Let’s hope so.

“Enter The Void” centers on a young man (Nathaniel Brown) who promises to protect his little sister ( Paz de la Huerta, from “The Limits of Control”), a nightclub stripper, after the brutal death of their parents. This plan is compromised when he gets shot in a drug bust and lays dying which sends him into a nightmarish, surreal maelstrom that sounds like somewhere between life and death. Thomas Bangalter, one half of electronic French house innovator’s Daft Punk, has written the score to the film.