Famed film critic Roger Ebert once called Climax and Into the Void writer-director Gaspar Noe’s Irreversible “a movie so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable.”
That’s a fair review.
And today we hear from Deadline that Studiocanal’s 4K re-releases in 2020 will include a restored version of Noe’s super controversial film dubbed Irreversible: Straight Cut.
Considering the original film employs reverse chronology (ala Christopher Nolan’s Memento) to tell its tale of traumatic terror, I can only assume this version, you know, places it all into a “straight” chronology order. That would make sense, right? Yeah, it would. But how will it affect the film? I guess we’ll see in 2020.
Told in reverse-chronological order it takes place over the course of one traumatic night in Paris when a beautiful woman’s lover and her former boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass.
It stars Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded) as Alex, Vincent Cassel (Black Swan) as Marcus, Albert Dupontel (A Very Long Engagement) as Pierre, Jo Prestia (Femme Fatale) as Le Tenia, and Philippe Nahon (Haute Tension) as The Butcher.
Written, directed, and edited by Noe, Irreversible was produced by Brahim Chioua and Vincent Cassel and features music by one half of Daft Punk, Thomas Bangalter. The cinematography was handled by Benoit Debie (lighting) and Gaspar Noe (camera).
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