Con-tro-ver-sial French-based Argentine director Gasper Noé's most recent feature is largely related "as seen from above" through an omniscient "spirit out of body" which surveys the past and growing present misfortunes of brother Oscar and his attractive sister Linda who soon hooks up with him in Tokyo. The already unlikely premise of middle-class Anglophone gaijin living, using and dealing in JP is compounded by a fluid, gloomy storyline and some squeamish, screamy moments, all of which could/did isolate older, non-adapted audiences.
The film and the action isn't bad; the camerawork is experimental without being pretentious; where it succeeds most is in its often stylish capturing of the lurid hues of a nocturnal Tokyo netherworld.
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