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Irreversible
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: IRREVERSIBLE (DVD MOVIE)
EAN: 9781589713413
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1589713419
Item Dimensions: 15
Label: Lions Gate
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
MPN: ST8159D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Editorial Review:
Irreversible begins with the closing credits running backwards before the film begins (or ends) with Marcus (Vincent Cassell) and Pierre (Albert Dupontel) being escorted out of a gay S&M club by the cops, Marcus with his arm broken and Pierre in handcuffs. The "story" proceeds to unwind in a series of single-take scenes that unfold Memento-style, with each scene giving more context to what we have seen previously. Each scenario depicts actions, dialogue, incident, behavior, and circumstances that the lead characters might have wished didn't happen, ranging from extreme violence through awkward social situations to mild embarrassment. The central character (and possible dreamer of this whole what-if story) emerges as Alex (Monica Bellucci), who suffers the worst in a very hard-to-watch rape sequence in an underpass. Semi-improvised, the scenes all have attack and power as themes, with later/earlier conversational sequences that suggest life isn't all sexual assaults in the dark, showing equal cinematic imagination with the horrors. Arguably, this is not a film most would subject themselves to twice, but it is something that stays in the mind for days after viewing, sparking far more ideas and emotions than most wallow-in-nastiness pictures. --Kim Newman
Alex and Marcus are a couple whose story is told over the course of a fateful evening in a series of long takes. An emotional odyssey that unspools in reverse from gut-wrenching violence to sweetly observed moments of sublime tenderness.System Requirements:Starring Albert Dupontel Monica Bellucci Vincent Cassel Directed by Noe Running time: 97 minutes Copyright Lion's Gate 2003Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 658149815926 Manufacturer No: ST8159D
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good but disturbing
Its a fairly good movie. Runs from the end to the front in sections. It is a french movie with English subtitles. Has a realistic, brutal rap scene that is extremely disturbing. Affected me for 3 days.
Rating:  - Can't even begin to explain..
..how this movie gets to your mind then to your heart. First shock and confussion, perpetrated by images so brilliantly real and painfully brutal, followed by an intriguing -but not that uncommon- plot that slowly unfolds the real story of Irreversible: one about LOVE AND CHOICES. That's what this movie is about, how sometimes we are just blind enough to not see the danger or what we are truly putting in risk in every decision we make, even when it is in front of our eyes. Or in the worst case, when ... Read More
Rating: - Emotionally and Pyschologically Challenging Movie
I just finished watching this film, and I found it to be more different than any movie I have ever seen. As other reviewers have said, the story plot is told in reverse. The urban feel of it appealed to me, the setting so to speak. The actors were brilliant in this. I have never seen such strong emotional parts being played. At first, I really wondered what was going on with the camera moving all kind of ways showing walls, street scenes, and a man raging with anger. The raging man, Marcus, played by ... Read More
Rating:  - Horrible
Just horrible. Stopped watching. Bought this because I thought it would be artsy, but it was wasn't. What I watched was just really bad.
Rating: - Irréversible is not Pornography.
"Le temps détruit tout" (Time Destroys All Things).
"Irréversible," Roger Ebert writes, "is a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable." But it would be wrong to dismiss this film as pornography. Gaspar Noé's controversial French film stars Monica Bellucci (The Passion of the Christ; How Much Do You Love Me?) and Vincent Cassel (Read My Lips; La Haine (Criterion Collection)) as two playful lovers, Alex and Marcus. (Bellucci and Cassel are married in real ... Read More
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