It’s one of the most shocking scenes in cinema history: A woman named Alex (Monica Bellucci) walks through an underpass. While walking, she witnesses a man attacking another woman. The other woman ...
There was a curious moment during the first press screening of Gaspar Noé’s new version of his 2002 feature Irreversible at the Venice Film Festival last week. In the middle of the film’s most ...
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Gaspar Noé’s 2002 film Irreversible is known as one of the most disturbing films of all time. Considered a part of the New French Extremity movement, the film doesn’t actually contain much gore. Its ...
A celluloid memento mori that unspools in reverse from gut-wrenching violence to sweetly observed moments of sublime tenderness, "Irreversible" is a demanding but rewarding emotional odyssey in a ...
In Gaspar Noe’s “Irreversible,” a woman is savagely beaten and raped, the camera capturing every tortured moment over nine long minutes. In an equally disturbing scene, audiences are confronted with a ...
Director Gaspar Noé talks “Irréversible: Straight Cut,” which takes his shocking 2002 film—full of rape, murder, and slurs—and somehow makes it even more uncomfortable to watch. Freelance Writer It’s ...