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# Irreversible

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The shattering consequences of violence are explored in writer/director Gaspar Noé's graphic and profoundly powerful drama, made up of 12 one-shot sequences in reverse chronological order. After Parisian beauty Alex (Monica Bellucci) is beaten and sexually assaulted, her boyfriend and ex-husband unite to find-and exact a brutal revenge against-the attacker. With Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon. 90 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French; Subtitles: English; 2019 chronological "straight cut" edit; featurettes; music videos; theatrical trailers. In French with English subtitles.

Review: One of the Greatest Films of Modern Cinema - Bar None - It's hard to truly encapdulate the power, skill, intelligence and importance to truly one of the most effecting films of our generation. It will undeniably leave you dumbfounded, touched and reviled. It is executed with such craft, such bravery and such emotion it will stay with you for days. Noe has been qouted as saying the film is told in reverse as every story told backwards has a happy ending, with a return to the womb. Finally we have a film with a message so loud and so bold it truly reflects ths state of our world and the human condition. It is cold and brutal reflecting how action and irresponsbility cut a swathe through intelligence, love and communication, yet it reflects the care and nuance ,and tenderness which makes up our everyday individual experience. It is fundamentally about fate, how our lives can take courses that are truly irreversible over such minor actions, and it is about reality, how is pays no heed to discussion or consideration, it acts with human, reviling, gutteral emotion. The first half of the picture is one of the hardest pieces of film to watch I have seen to date. The amazing, cinematogrpahy, score and direction is dark, harrowing and leaves you fidgeting in your seat. The infamous 'fire extinguisher' scene deserves it's reputation, it will be an achievement if you can watch it all, it will effect you far more than horror gore. Then you follow the characters in the first steps of the unravelling tale, told backwards with such amazing editing and grace you know the film achieves it's power through the device. The rape scene is one of the most important landmarks of modern cinema. It is so plain, so vile, so repulsive it will heighten any opinion you have against rape, and it will be unwatchable for a woman. It is not glossed, glamorised, it quite simply is what it is, and makes you feel new found disgust for hollywoods picture of what violence is. When you see crimes like this in the flesh they have no soundtrack, no stylish filter, and thats how Irrevsible paints it. Now here comes the worse part, the film reverts to the witty, beautifully written conversation of the protagonists, and the unmissable, touching love between real life couple Cassel and Belucci. Their affection, complications and idiosyncracies are so deftly captured it makes you hark to your own experiences of being close to another human being, and really the acting of these two lead perfromers is unparalled is any film I care to think of. All this positive emotion, and increasing bright colour and modd is anchored by the knowledge of what awaits these two, and the inexplicable fate they do not warrant. This is the films ture power, it makes care so much for such wonderfully mapped characters after you see the raw violence and invasion which awaits them. The film winds down with bright white light and the beautiful Belucci lieing on a summers day in a green park with children running, and with the credits at the beginning yo are left with nothing but the empty realisation that the genius of the film is to leave you with no answer, no retribution, and no redemption. You begin to understand that the fire extinguisher attack on the rapist, is not abhorrent to human nature, but the very thing you would do in the same situation to someone who violated the woman you love. You would take the nearest blunt object and lash out. This incredible reflection and emotion is stimulated in such a stylish, original and technically brilliant package. It touches all of us unflinchingly, never becoming indulgent, but always leaving you with something more than when you started. I had to watch it 3 or 4 times immediately after first viewing, and it left me truly effected like few films can. It is for the discerning viewer, the courageous viewer, who believes cinema is still art, designed to provoke and to communicate with us on the very deepest of levels.
Review: A brutally honest account of the effects of violence - This incredibly brave film does what very few films are prepared to do. It explores in detail how acts of extreme violence have extreme consequences. In a world of Hollywood banality, where action heros are beaten to a pulp yet walk away unscathed, and where rape is a regular plot device used to boost ratings in flagging soap operas, it's no wonder people are shocked by the brutality of the film. But that's exactly what rape and any act of violence is - brutal and unforgiving with permanent consequences. Most importantly, it lays bear all the myths regarding when when a woman 'deserves' to be raped. To this end, Monica Belluci is superb as the sexy woman in a see-through dress who goes home alone - and is not for one moment 'asking for it'. And while Vincent Cassell is naked in their love scene, Belluci spends most of the time at least partially wrapped in a sheet, so I didn't find it gratuitous. It is however a scene that is deliberately tender and intimate in contrast with the horrific act we have winessed earlier in the film. And perhaps because they are married in real life, it does feel a little intrusive. The rape scene is very hard to watch, but not explicit - maybe the reason why it is so troubling is that it shows the reality of rape. In one single nine-minute act, a human being is scarred and damaged beyond recognition and those who love them feel driven to extreme acts themselves as a result of their grief. And the realisation that the victim might be pregnant adds to the destructive nature of the act and how even a life that hasn't been lived yet can be ruined for ever. Overall, Irreversible is very poignant as well as troubling and everyone who took part in the making of this very important film should be congratulated.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Contributor | Albert Dupontel, Gaspar Noé, Monica Bellucci, Philippe Nahon, Vincent Cassel |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 out of 5 stars 1,434 Reviews |
| Format | Blu-ray, Subtitled |
| Genre | Drama |
| Language | French |
| Runtime | 3 hours |

## Product Details

- **Format:** Subtitled
- **Genre:** Drama
- **Language:** French
- **Manufacturer:** Altered Innocence
- **Number of discs:** 2

## Images

![Irreversible - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5147nL5zB5L.jpg)
![Irreversible - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71p2A19eiyL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the Greatest Films of Modern Cinema - Bar None
*by S***R on 4 January 2004*

It's hard to truly encapdulate the power, skill, intelligence and importance to truly one of the most effecting films of our generation. It will undeniably leave you dumbfounded, touched and reviled. It is executed with such craft, such bravery and such emotion it will stay with you for days. Noe has been qouted as saying the film is told in reverse as every story told backwards has a happy ending, with a return to the womb. Finally we have a film with a message so loud and so bold it truly reflects ths state of our world and the human condition. It is cold and brutal reflecting how action and irresponsbility cut a swathe through intelligence, love and communication, yet it reflects the care and nuance ,and tenderness which makes up our everyday individual experience. It is fundamentally about fate, how our lives can take courses that are truly irreversible over such minor actions, and it is about reality, how is pays no heed to discussion or consideration, it acts with human, reviling, gutteral emotion. The first half of the picture is one of the hardest pieces of film to watch I have seen to date. The amazing, cinematogrpahy, score and direction is dark, harrowing and leaves you fidgeting in your seat. The infamous 'fire extinguisher' scene deserves it's reputation, it will be an achievement if you can watch it all, it will effect you far more than horror gore. Then you follow the characters in the first steps of the unravelling tale, told backwards with such amazing editing and grace you know the film achieves it's power through the device. The rape scene is one of the most important landmarks of modern cinema. It is so plain, so vile, so repulsive it will heighten any opinion you have against rape, and it will be unwatchable for a woman. It is not glossed, glamorised, it quite simply is what it is, and makes you feel new found disgust for hollywoods picture of what violence is. When you see crimes like this in the flesh they have no soundtrack, no stylish filter, and thats how Irrevsible paints it. Now here comes the worse part, the film reverts to the witty, beautifully written conversation of the protagonists, and the unmissable, touching love between real life couple Cassel and Belucci. Their affection, complications and idiosyncracies are so deftly captured it makes you hark to your own experiences of being close to another human being, and really the acting of these two lead perfromers is unparalled is any film I care to think of. All this positive emotion, and increasing bright colour and modd is anchored by the knowledge of what awaits these two, and the inexplicable fate they do not warrant. This is the films ture power, it makes care so much for such wonderfully mapped characters after you see the raw violence and invasion which awaits them. The film winds down with bright white light and the beautiful Belucci lieing on a summers day in a green park with children running, and with the credits at the beginning yo are left with nothing but the empty realisation that the genius of the film is to leave you with no answer, no retribution, and no redemption. You begin to understand that the fire extinguisher attack on the rapist, is not abhorrent to human nature, but the very thing you would do in the same situation to someone who violated the woman you love. You would take the nearest blunt object and lash out. This incredible reflection and emotion is stimulated in such a stylish, original and technically brilliant package. It touches all of us unflinchingly, never becoming indulgent, but always leaving you with something more than when you started. I had to watch it 3 or 4 times immediately after first viewing, and it left me truly effected like few films can. It is for the discerning viewer, the courageous viewer, who believes cinema is still art, designed to provoke and to communicate with us on the very deepest of levels.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A brutally honest account of the effects of violence
*by T***N on 13 March 2007*

This incredibly brave film does what very few films are prepared to do. It explores in detail how acts of extreme violence have extreme consequences. In a world of Hollywood banality, where action heros are beaten to a pulp yet walk away unscathed, and where rape is a regular plot device used to boost ratings in flagging soap operas, it's no wonder people are shocked by the brutality of the film. But that's exactly what rape and any act of violence is - brutal and unforgiving with permanent consequences. Most importantly, it lays bear all the myths regarding when when a woman 'deserves' to be raped. To this end, Monica Belluci is superb as the sexy woman in a see-through dress who goes home alone - and is not for one moment 'asking for it'. And while Vincent Cassell is naked in their love scene, Belluci spends most of the time at least partially wrapped in a sheet, so I didn't find it gratuitous. It is however a scene that is deliberately tender and intimate in contrast with the horrific act we have winessed earlier in the film. And perhaps because they are married in real life, it does feel a little intrusive. The rape scene is very hard to watch, but not explicit - maybe the reason why it is so troubling is that it shows the reality of rape. In one single nine-minute act, a human being is scarred and damaged beyond recognition and those who love them feel driven to extreme acts themselves as a result of their grief. And the realisation that the victim might be pregnant adds to the destructive nature of the act and how even a life that hasn't been lived yet can be ruined for ever. Overall, Irreversible is very poignant as well as troubling and everyone who took part in the making of this very important film should be congratulated.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Disturbing Head Trip
*by N***T on 10 February 2011*

Irreversible is a harrowing and very disturbing movie. It tells the story of a happy couple who go out to a party and following a arguement part ways for the evening. The man stays at the party while the woman decides to walk home. These events lead to the woman being brutally raped in a scene that is so realistic due in part to it's one shot take it will leave you shocked and thought provoked for sometime after. Having learnt about his girlfriends fate the man takes justice into his own hands and he, along with his friend decide to track down the guy responsible. This quest takes them to the most disturbing and perverse places within the city and they are forced to defend themselves in the most brutal ways imaginable. The most unique aspect about this movie is that it is told in reverse. So you see the ending first and then each chapter of the DVD after shows you each event that preceeds the one you just watched. A clever and original idea that makes this a more compelling watch. This movie is 100% Art House in it's cinematography and is as extreme as Hostal, Saw and A Serbian Film although not as gory except for one scene. It is woth a watch if you like extreme and exploitation cinema but be prepared as this is a slow building movie. Fans of conventional horror movies might find this a bit boring in places.

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