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 ...

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 ...

Let's be clear about this from the start: Gaspar Noé's Irréversible isn't for everyone, to put it mildly. Of the 24 entries in our Inventory "Great Films Too Painful To Watch Twice," it's to my mind ...

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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 ...

The irreversibility of cell-cycle transitions is commonly thought to derive from the irreversible degradation of certain regulatory proteins. We argue that irreversible transitions in the cell cycle ...

In Gaspar Noe’s “Irreversible,” a woman is savagely beaten and raped, the camera capturing every tortured moment over nine long minutes. In an equally disturbing scene, audiences are confronted with a ...