Short synopsis : Drug dealer Oscar lives with his stripper sister Linda in Tokyo. Mortally wounded in a police bust, having sworn never to abandon her, Oscar’s spirit wanders the city in Noe’s visionary psychedelic melodrama.

Long synopsis : Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar’s a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister - that he would never abandon her - refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom.

Cast

• Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander, Masato Tanno, Ed Spear

Crew

• Producer(s): Pierre Buffin, Brahim Chioua, Olivier Delbosc , Peter Hermann
• Director(s): Gaspar Noé
• Screenplay: Gaspar Noé, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
• DP: Benoit Debie
• Editing: Marc Boucrot, Gaspar Noé, Jérôme Pesnel
• Original Music: Thomas Bangalter
• Set Design: Jean-Andre Carriere, Kikuo Ohta

• Original Title: SOUDAIN LE VIDE
• Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy


• Production company: FIDELITE FILMS
• Production date: 2009
• Language: English, French, Japanese
• Duration: 166 min

• Festival de Cannes 2009 - Competition
  
• Toronto International Film Festival 2009
  
• Sitges Film Festival 2009
  Award(s) : Best Cinematography, Special Prize of the Jury
• BFI London Film Festival 2009
  
• Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2009
  
• Stockholm Film Festival 2009
  
• Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2009
  
• Sundance Film Festival 2010
  
• Hong Kong International Film Festival 2010
  
• Istanbul Film Festival 2010
  
• Melbourne International Film Festival 2010
  
• T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival 2010
  
• Ventana Sur - European Film Week 2010
  
• Vilnius International Film Festival 2011
  
• CPH:PIX 2011
  
• Camerimage - Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy 2010