When it was originally released in 2002, Gaspar Noé’s “Irreversible” stunned audiences that were brave enough to watch it. The film was shocking and appalling and shot in a dizzying style with ...

It’s one of the most shocking scenes in cinema history: A woman named Alex (Monica Bellucci) walks through an underpass. While walking, she witnesses a man attacking another woman. The other woman ...

You need this ultra-violent, ultra-notorious rape-revenge nightmare like a fire-extinguisher-shaped hole in the head If Gaspar Noé had never made another film after his 1998 feature debut, Seul Contre ...

There was a curious moment during the first press screening of Gaspar Noé’s new version of his 2002 feature Irreversible at the Venice Film Festival last week. In the middle of the film’s most ...

A celluloid memento mori that unspools in reverse from gut-wrenching violence to sweetly observed moments of sublime tenderness, "Irreversible" is a demanding but rewarding emotional odyssey in a ...

Director Gaspar Noé talks “Irréversible: Straight Cut,” which takes his shocking 2002 film—full of rape, murder, and slurs—and somehow makes it even more uncomfortable to watch. Freelance Writer It’s ...