Irreversible (2002)
(Irréversible)
Country: FR
Technical: col 97m
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Synopsis:
A pair of drunken, aggrieved men burst into a gay nightclub to avenge themselves on a violent pimp, and in fragmented flashback we see the chain of events that brought them there.
Review:
The entire conception belies the essential 'message', that time and its effects, in this case violent rape and murder, destroy everything irreversibly - just one of the gimmicks employed by the director; others include the unbroken takes of each segment and the whirling, dizzying turns of the camera as it reels backwards in time. The nightclub sequence is such an assault on the senses that if you survive it you might just take the rape scene that forms the centrepiece of the film later on; then the second half gradually pulls us out of darkness into light, and Beethoven's 7th. Whether this often repellent film of barely sketched characters is worth the endurance test is a moot point.
(Irréversible)
Country: FR
Technical: col 97m
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Synopsis:
A pair of drunken, aggrieved men burst into a gay nightclub to avenge themselves on a violent pimp, and in fragmented flashback we see the chain of events that brought them there.
Review:
The entire conception belies the essential 'message', that time and its effects, in this case violent rape and murder, destroy everything irreversibly - just one of the gimmicks employed by the director; others include the unbroken takes of each segment and the whirling, dizzying turns of the camera as it reels backwards in time. The nightclub sequence is such an assault on the senses that if you survive it you might just take the rape scene that forms the centrepiece of the film later on; then the second half gradually pulls us out of darkness into light, and Beethoven's 7th. Whether this often repellent film of barely sketched characters is worth the endurance test is a moot point.
(Irréversible)
Country: FR
Technical: col 97m
Director: Gaspar Noé
Cast: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon
Synopsis:
A pair of drunken, aggrieved men burst into a gay nightclub to avenge themselves on a violent pimp, and in fragmented flashback we see the chain of events that brought them there.
Review:
The entire conception belies the essential 'message', that time and its effects, in this case violent rape and murder, destroy everything irreversibly - just one of the gimmicks employed by the director; others include the unbroken takes of each segment and the whirling, dizzying turns of the camera as it reels backwards in time. The nightclub sequence is such an assault on the senses that if you survive it you might just take the rape scene that forms the centrepiece of the film later on; then the second half gradually pulls us out of darkness into light, and Beethoven's 7th. Whether this often repellent film of barely sketched characters is worth the endurance test is a moot point.