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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Asia Pacific World Search Search: Tokyo lights provide setting for last Cannes films AFP - Sunday, May 24 CANNES, France (AFP) - - Tokyo's neon lights provide the setting for two of the last films lining up for Cannes gold Sunday: a love tale about a contract-killer and a hypnotic, drug-fuelled trip to the afterlife. ADVERTISEMENT French director Gaspar Noe -- who sparked walk-outs in Cannes with an excruciating rape scene in his last film "Irreversible" -- provoked a love-it-or-hate-it reaction to his psychedelic new offering, "Enter the Void." Special-effects burst from the screen in Noe's night-time trip through Tokyo, following a young American drug dealer's journey after death and his attempt from the afterlife to watch over his stripper sister. Noe's film takes in its stride Eastern concepts about sex and reincarnation, with repeated references to "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" and plentiful explicit sex scenes. Through most of the film, the camera hovers above Tokyo -- suspended from cranes and helicopters -- as the central character's spirit lifts out of his corpse to retrace his life, floating through buildings, bodies and time. Many critics were put off by the film's length, its meandering storyline and the repetition of psychedelic and strobe effects, but others were impressed with its visual virtuosity, with the New York Times calling it "exceptional." Trade magazine Screen described "Enter The Void" as "a wild, hallucinatory" head trip for adults. "If audiences care to, they can lose themselves in Noe's images and trip on his imagination. If they don't, they will be bored to tears." Questioned about the spiritual content of the film, Noe told a press conference he was a hard-and-fast atheist but was drawn by the challenge of representing a spiritual journey in images. While Noe's movie is shot almost entirely at night, Isabel Coixet's new film, "Map of the Sounds of Tokyo", takes the viewer on a pre-dawn trip around the Japanese capital. The Spanish director tells the story of a young woman's double life as a contract killer and a worker on the Tokyo fishmarkets -- and how she falls in love with one of her targets. Shot against a moody jazz backdrop, the film offers a rich portrait of Tokyo, from the slicing of tuna and splash of hoses at the market, to a sex hotel in pastiche-Paris style or a karaoke bar. But critics at a preview Friday were unconvinced by the storyline, and it earned boos mixed with a smattering of applause. Coixet's film closes the official selection of 20 works from the world's top directors lined up for the Palme d'Or, to be announced at a gala ceremony Sunday night closing the world's biggest annual movie event. Palestinian director Elia Suleiman unveiled "The Time that Remains," a bitter-sweet farce on his family history and the daily life of Israeli Arabs, the Palestinians who continued to live inside Israel proper after 1948. Inspired by the diaries of Suleiman's resistance fighter father and his mother's letters to her relatives, the film received a warm welcome at a gala screening Friday. Saturday sees the premiere "Visage" (Face), by Taiwan director Tsai Ming-Liang, the first of a new opus of works produced by the Louvre -- about a Taiwan director making a film at the Paris museum based on the myth of Salome. But the film, mostly static tableaux played by a star-studded French cast, failed to wow critics at a preview screening. "Although it occasionally sports a pretty 'Face', Tsai Ming-Liang's laborious Francophone feature winds up seriously irritating the skin without ever actually getting under it," Variety's critic wrote. Frontrunners for the Palme include Austrian director Michael Haneke's stark and chilling black-and-white portrait of a Protestant German village on the eve of World War I, "The White Ribbon." Another bleak flick, French prison drama "The Prophet" by Jacques Audiard, is being rated the top candidate to scoop the Palme d'Or award. Also well-liked by a foreign critics' panel in Screen are Jane Campion's "Bright Star", Pedro Almodovar's "Broken Embraces" and "Looking for Eric" by Ken Loach. 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