Irreversible Rating: Release Date: 05 August, 2003 Retail Price: $19.98 OUR Price: $14.99 You SAVE: $4.99! Cast: Monica Bellucci Vincent Cassel Albert Dupontel

Irreversible Reviews

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Disturbing
This movie is among the 1000 Best Movies in DVD by Peter Travers, that is why I bought it. During 10 minutes, you see the beautiful Belucci being raped on a tunnel in Paris, and that scene is disturbing. The whole movie is, with an interesting plot told backwards, from the end to the beginning on a full day of the life of these characters. At the beginning of the movie (which would be the end of the story), we are at the club "Rectum" (ass in Latin ...), a gay night club where people meet to have sex. There, Marcus is looking for Tenia, the responsible for raping and beating Alex, his girlfriend. Another extremely disturbing scene takes place in that club (but I am not to say, since I don't want to spoil the movie), and so on ... Saying this is not a good movie would not be fair, but it is definetely a movie not to please the majority of the public, with a kind of "dizzy" camera style, moving here and there, in circles, crazy, to tell a crazy-disturbing story. It's a French movie, so don't expect anything related to American standards, because European films are different from American. The movie won best film at the Stockholm Film Festival (2002), and was in the official selection of the Sundance Film Festival (2003) and Cannes (2002) among others. The DVD comes with an interesting documentary about the special effects, and two lame "deleted scenes" that look more like video clips than deleted scenes. Also a commercial about the soundtrack and several trailers of the movie. The movie is in French with Spanish and English subtitles.
After all, an interesting movie which will please those who like to see the beautiful Bellucci, gay and lesbian movies, violence, disturbing scenes, weird stories, and transgression on art.

Excellent movie but unnerving as all hell
I should start by saying don't let the practically naked woman on the cover of the DVD / VCR case fool you, this is not erotica. The rape scene made me cringe and I'm a guy - not to sound male chauvinist or anything but I can only imagine how horrifying it would be for a woman to watch this movie (actually this would be a great movie for any young man to watch only because if the man has even a sliver of a conscience it should help prevent him from participating in any date-rape situations in the future - in that sense I would go so far as to say this film is required viewing only to show people just how horrific rape really is and, much as I hate the idea of scaring women, also to show young women just how dangerous it is to put themselves in situations where they could be at risk). Don't assume that the other reviewers who have said the same thing are being overly sensitive or too politically correct either - I'm dead serious the rape scene is horrifyingly, horrifyingly graphic. That's pretty much the only "sex" scene so to speak (and I use the word loosely there) so again, this is not erotica if you're looking for that rent a porn movie instead. Having said that I was moved by this film - the fact that I was horrified shows that it had an effect on me, which is what any good film should do. If you're a fan of say, Law and Order- Special Victims Unit for example and want to see stories about the real life monsters (e.g. rapists, molesters and so forth) you'll probably like this film. I was very disappointed that the rapist (I know I'm overusing the word but I'll use it again - horrifyingly depicted as a depraved, chilling utter evil wretch of a human being, regardless of whether or not he was high on drugs at the time) didn't get what was coming to him, the [...] made a clean getaway - it adds to the overall "scariness" (for lack of a better word) of the film, it's all too sad but no doubt very true that scum like this guy avoid punishment for their deeds out in the "real" world as well. Ultimately that's what makes the film effective and what makes you feel like you've been punched in the gut after watching it - it's a depiction of what can, and probably does, happen out here in the "real" world.

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