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Irreversible

Irréversible

2002

Gaspar Noé

Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon ...

6.7

27,622

Drama After Alex (Belluci) has a fight with her boyfriend Marcus (Cassel), she leaves a party alone and is attacked and raped by a stranger on her way home. Furious, Marcus and his friend Pierre (Dupontel) set out find the rapist and exact revenge.

	Author	Review
Canada	Rick Groen The Globe and Mail	"An integrated work whose form clearly mirrors its content. Often, looking into that mirror is dreadful; but, often enough, it's also dreadfully revealing"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Stupid, vicious, and pretentious, though you may find it worth checking out if you want to experiment with your own nervous system."	NEG
United States	Jack Mathews New York Daily News	"Deeply humanist and emotionally complex"	POS
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"Fails because of its gratuitous rape and violence and also because of its pretentious and intellectually one-dimensional grounds"	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Most people will not want to see the film at all. It is so violent, it shows such cruelty, that it is a test most people will not want to endure. But it is unflinchingly honest (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Noé is like Kubrick crossed with de Sade in the age of underground vérité porn; (...) After a while, a didactic overdeliberateness seeps into Noé's design"	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"There are strong ideas at play in Noé's undeniably audacious and technically stunning second feature"	POS
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Noe isn't a graceful filmmaker. He wants to traumatize his audience, barnstorm us, make us pay in anxiety and sweat and scorched nerves for the ugly truths he wants us to swallow."	NEG
United States	Lex Briscuso SlashFilm	"Gaspar Noe's brutal tale is effective no matter how it's told (...) As emotional as it is disturbing"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Truthfully, it's all incredibly boring."	NEG
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"The performances certainly don't stir up much emotion. Except for the sodden Mr. Dupontel -- whose shadings of remorse bring the only real feeling to the film's morbid intensity -- no one else creates a character. And it's why 'Irréversible'' is ultimately forgettable"	NEG

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