Irreversible

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DVD Features:
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: August 5, 2003
- Originally Released: 2003
- Label: Lions Gate
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Widescreen - 1.85
- Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Additional Release Material:
- Trailers
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurette: Making of the Special Effects
- Audio Commentary:
- Gaspar Noe - Director
- Director & Crew
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vincent Cassel & Monica Bellucci | |
Performer: | Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon & Jo Prestia | |
Directed by | Gaspar Noé | |
Screenwriting by | Gaspar Noé | |
Composition by | Thomas Bangaltar | |
Produced by | Christophe Rossignon | |
Director of Photography: | Benoît Debie |
Entertainment Reviews:
...An amazing, and profoundly disturbing, experience....[Noe is] a new kind of film wizard: a poet of apocalyptic shock...
Entertainment Weekly
A genuine outlaw work of art.
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Washington Post
...This confrontationalist is a moviemaker worth confronting...
Premiere
Rating: B- --
A sometimes repellent yet deeply moving film.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Rating: 5/5 --
Noe is a confrontational master, no question.
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eFilmCritic.com
It is telling that Noé, a filmmaker ordinarily enamored by the grueling underbelly of human behavior, can effectively contrast the nihilism of the climactic events with an almost hopeful tone overlaying the story's origins.
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Cinemaphile.org
Rating: 5/5 --
A brutal exercise in form that need not be ignored. Noé is a modern auteur, no matter what you think of his ideas.
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Father Son Holy Gore
Product Description:
After what would normally be the end credits (which run backwards), IRREVERSIBLE begins with a heated hunt through a gay S&M club. It is a chaotic sequence shot from a wildly spiraling camera seamlessly edited together to appear as one single shot and culminating in one of the most violent murders ever portrayed on celluloid. Following this crescendo, Gaspar Noe's (I STAND ALONE) film uses a reverse narrative structure similar to MEMENTO through which the audience learns the motivations for the murder and the relationships of three parties directly involved, the beautiful Alex (Monica Bellucci) and two men who adore her (Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel). The frenzied style of the opening gives way to increasingly static camera work throughout leading to an idyllic final shot of Alex, who the audience has long known is a doomed woman, set to Beethoven and alive with color and youthful innocence otherwise absent from this bleak urban nightmare. The film disregards conventional editing by ending each scene with a dizzying camera whirl. Since each scene is intended to look like a single take (although there are seamless cuts throughout), this gives the film the appearance of one continuous shot.
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Production Notes:
- Theatrical Release: MARCH 7, 2003 (NY/LA)
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