Irreversible (2002)
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Year: 2002
Directed by: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Monica Bellucci (Alex), Vincent Cassel (Marcus), Albert Dupontel (Pierre), Jo Prestia (Tenia), Philippe Nahon (The Butcher), Gaspar Noe (Guy jerking off at The Rectum)
Country: France, European Cinema
Language: French (English subs)
Runtime: 01:33:28
Genres: Rape-Sexual-Violence against Women, Revenge, Violence against Men, Gay, Racism
Plot – Spoilers:
Irreversible is one of the most controversial rape movies ever made due to its almost 10-minute-long single shot rape scene. It’s also a tale of revenge told in reverse – we start at the end (including credits) and move through segments narrated in reverse chronological order.
Alex is a young woman in a fairly happy relationship with Marcus. They’re headed out to a party with Alex’s ex, Pierre, tagging along. Pierre is a cerebral kind of dick who hasn’t gotten over Alex and is obsessed with his inability to get her to cum when they were together. Marcus is indulgent to Pierre but a bit of a fool especially when the drugs take over. Sitting between these two is Alex, who is a regular, kindly and social woman on the threshold of motherhood.
After Marcus and Pierre ruin her mood at a party, Alex decides to head home alone and takes a lonely underpass where she is anally raped and beaten brutally by a gay pimp. Marcus who is already high, goes hysterical and rabidly heads out looking for revenge, lugging a reluctant Pierre along.
The choice to narrate Irreversible in reverse was partly to help secure funding following the success of Memento. But it’s also an interesting option. If you started with Alex learning of her pregnancy and moved to her rape and the subsequent revenge (even though they got the wrong guy 🙂 ), it’s something we are used to – things getting fucked up. But doing it in reverse makes you unravel and understand better the person that has just been brutalized.
The French and the Serbians are woefully deprived it seems, and it shows in their film making. This is a tough watch and seems gratuitous. I leave this film the way I left a Serbian Film, sick that this actually happens and sicker that some want-to-be artistics didn’t get enough love from the opposite sex to prevent them from playing out their fantasies on film. To think, someone paid for this to be made.
As stated by a commenter below, avoid this if you have had abuse in your life. This may be considered the best of French Cinema, which in the US translates to 3/10. The rest of the world says we have a gun culture based on our films, what kind of culture are they nurturing in France?
It’s a tough watch but so are most horror-art films. I liked the completion backwards editing. The film would have not been nearly as effective had we known Alex was pregnant from the beginning. The spinning camerawork was an interesting transition from scene to scene. Another device used was in the sound track, a low decibel almost subliminal bass note known to cause distress in some listeners. I thought it was very well done. Monica Bellucci is gorgeous!
A warning to any woman who has been sexually abused: You may not want to watch this film.
all these comments r so fkn weird Omg. A bunch of fat loser retards that have never and will never be loved by a woman. the trolls leaving disgusting ass comments need to be killed off asap
Monica Bellucci is so hot that even gay wanna fuck her. But why he beat her up after sex ? It’s so cruel.
From the beginning her body (tits especially) really turned him on so he is not gay. And he wouldn’t be able to fuck her like this and with that kind of pleasure if she wasn’t be his object of desire, so he must be bisexual or even straight, that’s for sure.
During the boner inducing rape scene (so hot) , the rapist sniffs poppers. Poppers are incredibly great for hightening sexual arousal. Makes you feel sexually euphoric and turns anyone into a sexual animal. So fuckin hot to use poppers while raping a woman. Mmm
He is a gay man, so why he got boner with woman ? He touched and kissed her with great pleasure to him, it’s unbeliveable.
i regularly come back to this movie only to masturbate to the rape scene. it makes my cunt unbelievably wet! too bad it’s monica bellucci and not someone better (and younger)
Splendid french cinema. These loosers who had never touch a woman or these too politically correct fuckers wont get it, but its trully a powerfull take on mans and womens roles in the society, and how they can be used in the wrong way. This is a Gaspars Noe’s masterwork showcase and I will praise it to death. Godspeed you people!!!!
That tranny was the most disgusting shit I’ve ever seen.
Didn’t like this at all, the camera work is shit along with the rest of the film!
one of the “worst” best films i’ve ever seen. absolutely horrific that people, like alex, experience this terrifying evil every single day. yet what i think is more horrifying is the people’s ability to respond to this evil not with rage, disgust, or even remorse, but with cruel indifference or even gleeful lust. i wish that evil like this didn’t exist, and i hope that the average person responds to this evil with the rightful outrage it deserves, but when i saw the casual misogyny and careless attitude that both pierre and marcus expressed in the final scenes of the film that, despite not being nearly as barbaric as la tenia’s ruthless attitude, still mirrored la tenia’s motivations and reasoning for the rape, i wonder whether a dream like that is ever possible. like alex’s dream, maybe anything’s possible.
This movie was annoying because 1. It’s backwards and 2. It’s so shaky you feel nauseous and get a headache and what was the point this is just torture porn why would Monica belluchi agree to do this
I don’t get why she would agree to play such a scene what good does that scene do for the world and what is the point of this movie
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The best movie french extreme cinema has to offer.
Solid 8/10
This comment section needs to get nuked.
Dude most of these comments are fucking disgusting.
That fucking whore deserved it for being so dumb standing there and staring like a total fucking retard, but at least it made it a lot easier for me to blow my load. I jerked off so hard my cum got all over my screen. Literally. Best 10 mins of the film, hands down. Also fuck all you fairies crying about the rape scene. No one forced you to watch it, so fuck off and feel free to downvote this comment and rage reply if it struck your pussy nerves. See if I give a fuck.
I mean, lets be honest, the way her dress is why she got raped, she should be wearing a hoodie and a big pants to avoid that, she just another whore in my opinion, almost all of characters are bad, Marcus, a crazy ape, Pierre, A cuck, this movie is dogshit tho
Geez these comments are brutal… men are oxymorons after all
Hate how they killed the wrong guy
We all know every man watching this got hard by the rape scene and I bet y’all men rape your siblings, children or mother or at least dreams about it
I started to get a slight boner during the rape scene, but my wife was right beside me watching together, so I distracted myself and successfully diffused the boner before she noticed and probably gonna question me. but why did I get aroused? I felt bad
If only Monica was a little boy in that rape scene,i wouldve came harder
What’s with people with a kink for ass fuck. Gross.
Sebian Film did just fine without camera flailing.
I saw this when it came out – and I feel the same now……powerful stuff. That rape scene, I really struggle to watch it. It just goes on and on and on, but that is point obviously. And when he starts booting her head in and and smashing it on the concrete floor, I can hardly watch.
And you know what? I am glad I find it hard to watch – means I am a normal human being.
most slurrpy R scene ever. yum
I masturbated while watching that 10 mins of real pleasure.
I like how the whole movie is in reverse. from end to beginning. i totally get it now
Off to the rectum!
My son Steve used to rape me like this……..bbbbut now he’s only interested in the neighbours kids bahaaaaa
The last 30 minutes is such a pain to watch… Also her complete lack of survival instinct is really off-putting, just laying there like a dead fish acceping her fate.
Never been able to get through this because some fucking prick can’t manage to keep a camera still,you can’t see fuck all from the strobe light effects or just sheer poor lighting in other shots,make it impossible to watch or concentration,the only thing disturbing thing about it is how fucking boring & overrated it is,just the same as all Gaspar Noe films,can’t believe I kept checking into them all hoping to see what everyone says is genius,this guy blows,so do his shit movies
love the R scene … just beautiful
Great film, because it has great actors. Horror isn’t about just throwing gore around.
I love this movie and I am huge fan of Monica Bellucci!
head scene was quite intense while stoned back in the day and the Barry Lyndon-esque denouement seems to sum everything in a nice neat nihilistic bow – enjoyed the erotic simulated abuse, but would have preferred Bellucci had agreed to do his porn idea instead…oh well, you take what you can get
This movie is incredible and incredibly effed up!, I’ve seen so many films on this site (including Serbian Film and it’s pretty overrated) but this is something new the rape scene was brutal this entire film is a effed up art piece and despite it only having 3 effed up scenes, it stings like hell!.
Doing an analysis of this movie so I’m rewatching it being more careful to little details
For those who want to know, Pierre hits Le Ténia 23 TIMES in the face with the fire extinguisher
for fuck’s sake, this camera work made me fuckin nauseous
i wish i wer dat guy wit monica she deserve it anywa 4 dressin like dat stuped bich
Only good about this movie was the famous rape scene with Belluchii everything else was boring the story was a drag
This movie perfectly establishes the reality of male dominance and its perpetuance. Women deserve to be raped and beaten if they refuse a man’s advances for they are the lesser species built by the Lord Jesus Christ for entertainment and reproduction, nothing more. Also great fapping material. 10/10.
felt like i unlocked an achievement after getting through the infamous scene, but thought my brain was about to start bleeding out right after.
structure’s used brilliantly in this, did not expect much considering subsequent noé works weren’t that great for me but wow this one hits.
Real boring movie. The best part was when the dude smashed the snowflakes face in at the beginning. The rape scene was done good too but like I said. The movie was boring as hell.
A rated concept film with terminal stage parkinson’s cameraman. Those with severe motion sickness can skip this film you won’t last.
10/10 Loved the movie, especially the rape scene ????????????
Good movie but insanely overrated in terms of “one of the most disturbing movies of all time”. Gimme a break. A guy gets his arm bent backwards and his face smashed in with a fire extinguisher and a woman is raped. You see women get raped on Lifetime, MTV, fuckin’ Freeform. I don’t wanna hear this mentioned on any “most disturbing list” ever again.
This is my second time viewing this and damn this movie is more disturbing and fucked up then I remembered it 2 years ago. Brilliant Masterpiece.
Meh, too try hard, yes there were some nasty scenes but overall it was too dark and confusing. But, worth a look just for Monica Bellucci alone, she is delicious.
I watched this crazy stoned and I should’ve watched it in the correct chronological order coz I was getting super confused during the beginning. Watch the scenes in reverse. The r@p3 scene was pretty hot
A film about the utterly tragic hopelessness of toxic masculinity, the objectification of women, and the overarching patriarchy that no one asked for or needs to watch.
This was a bit difficult to sit through, not because of the rape but because it was so slow. If you’re looking for a very shocking and fucked up film this one doesn’t really fit that description, though it is still disturbing in quite a few ways. that said, I loved this, it’s definitely worth the watch.
Hey Honey.. looking forward to going out.. I Think I’ll wear my new nipple dress.
Im wondering if I Stand Alone and Irreversible are connected ? Im sorry if this has already been said, but the guy in the beginning that slept with his daughter is the same character from I Stand Alone. They are both by Gasper Noe, too.
I like reality of the film
God damn that fire extinguisher scene was hard to watch. I take that back the entire movie was hard to watch thats why I come here ?
The last 40 minutes is very hard to sit through, and not because its too intense, just because its stuff thats not needed for the story, yet the movie wouldnt work unless they had that stuff. It just makes for a bloated project.
To be honest this is one of the most boring films i have ever seen, the camera work is shit the whole film, the Dialogue was so fucking boring!!! if your watching this for the rape scene ( only watch that part ) the rest of the film is total garbage and a waste of a hour and 30 mins of my life i will never get back
Pretty nice movie! Thx u!
Jesus Christ, this movie is hard to get through.
Nice and beautiful movie
This movie is brilliant!!!