Irreversible

Posted 20 October 2010 | Movies

Irréversible is a 2002 French film written, directed, photographed, and edited by Gaspar Noé. It stars Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel. Several reviewers[who?] declared it one of the most disturbing and controversial films of 2002. The film employs non-linear narrative. The music is by French electronic musician Thomas Bangalter, who is best known as half of the band Daft Punk.

Irréversible won the “Bronze Horse” award at the Stockholm Film Festival and competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival,[1] as well as the “Best Foreign Language Award” by the Film Critics Circle of Australia. It was also voted “Best Foreign Language Film” by the San Diego Film Critics Society (tied with Les Invasions Barbares).

Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything.

Irreversible

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