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Mar 14, 2003 · "Irreversible" is a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable. The camera looks on unflinchingly as a woman is raped and beaten for several long, unrelenting minutes, and as a man has his face pounded in with a fire extinguisher, in an attack that continues until after he is apparently dead.
Irréversible Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. Yasser Medina Cinefilia. Noé, with a disruptive aesthetic, evokes explicit images to point out a text...
A woman's lover and her former boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist.
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Mar 7, 2023 · Rape-revenge movies like “Irreversible” show that there can be more to the depiction of gendered violence than the easy thrill of looking at brutalized female bodies.
May 22, 2002 · Irreversible: Directed by Gaspar Noé. With Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon. 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 an underpass tunnel.
The film holds an approval rating of 59% based on 126 reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 6.10/10. The website's critics' consensus states: "Though well-filmed, Irréversible feels gratuitous in its extreme violence."
Irreversible is that rare beast, a self-contained experience which goes beyond the cinematic and aesthetic to show something real, both touching and frightening, beautiful and horrific, simple and innovative. The first twenty minutes are among the toughest you will encounter on the screen.
