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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 9781589713413
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 1589713419
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 05, 2003
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 9938
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
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Product Description:
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. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 09/14/2004 Starring: Monica Bellucci Vincent Cassel Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Ur
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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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Monica Bellucci is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in hollywood
I don't like the movie, but I like Monica Bellucci, she is very beautiful and her body is the goddess.
Rating:  - irreversible
this is a lousy movie with no script or plot to it.also very bad acting.I would not recommend this to anyone
Rating:  - Disturbing, yet I can't forget it.
Irreversible was disturbing, unquestionably. It was probably one of the most disturbing movies I've ever seen. Two of the more notable scenes had me wanting to look away, something that the the common day torture porn movies can't seem to manage (though I stay away from them as a rule). Everything in these reviews are right in that regard -- it's not for those with soft stomachs. However, it's also a powerful film that will stick with you for several days after viewing if you can absorb it all.
Some of the reviews call it exploitive and some call it a revenge film... I'd say it's absolutely neither. It doesn't use the violence/rape as a tool for satisfaction and it doesn't use it as an excuse for later actions. In a typical revenge film the initial incident (in this case the rape of Alex) is merely the starting point for the revenge character (in this case Marcus) to go on a wild spree righting the wrongs (the fire extinguisher scene). However, because we are initially shocked and horrified by the murder with the fire extinguisher, we gain no satisfaction from it, so it's hardly called revenge (knowing it's the wrong man doesn't help either). When we see the rape scene we know there is no satisfaction in the "revenge", so it's merely disturbing and doesn't serve as an excuse for Marcus' actions. It proceeds to a small fight at a party which ends in Alex leaving - gut wrenching, if you didn't have your eyes closed for what the character had to go through 10 minutes earlier. ... Read More
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 we willingly sacrifice our good inner self for other temporary pleasures that ultimately lead us to a nightmare.
So, putting aside the violence and revenge secuences (that just enhance the whole storytelling) you'll get an actual love story.
In short..it's just a wonderful film about LIFE itself just like it is, inmensely beautiful and cruel.
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