With the controversial Irreversible, director Gaspar Noe showed he’s isn’t your usual filmmake, and is unfraid to make bold visual and thematic choices that turn watching one of his films into as much an endurance test as a movie-going experience. However since that movie, while he’s directed a few equally intense shorts, only now is his next feature-length film preparing for release (and it’s taken a long time, as it played at both Cannes 2009 and the London Film Festival, but won’t arrive in the US and UK cinemas until September). The film, loosely based on The Tibetan Book Of The Dead, is the strange tale of a drug-dealing American teen in Tokyo, who is shot and killed, but returns as a ghost to watch over his sister. The trailer makes the movie look like a bizarre sex and violence filled acid trip, and knowing Noe, that’s probably exactly what it is.