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  Review by Simon Ramshaw ★★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "Take the underpass. It's safer." - Woman on Street

  No. No, it isn't.

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  Review by ash ★★ 34

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  Another film I didn't want to rate. After the rape I just sat and cried my eyes out for 5 minutes. I am exhuasted, I am drained, I feel violated. Literally, the only thing this film has going for it is its unique chronology and, for the most part, it is interestingly shot.

  What really ruins this film for me is the aftermath of the rape, and how it is depicted through the eyes of not the now comatose victim (this feels like a cheap shot to get out of actually exploring the rape beyond it being just a plot device), but of her boyfriend and her best friend. Noe frames this story of sexual violence against a woman as…

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  Review by maria ★★★★½ 20

  fuck

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  Review by Donatello Bzduch ★★★★★ 25

  I never want to see this again.

  It’s perfect.

  I hate you.

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  Review by Daniel Carolan ★★★★★ 7

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  Gaspar Noé’s work is greatly influenced by Sigmund Freud, who said that human emotion, thought and behaviour were driven by two things: sex and aggression. Both love and violence are described as primatial states, but when the two are brought together, Noé has created one of the most prolific and disturbing portrayals of sexual violence in cinema history.

  His specific output of sexualised violence is delivered to inflict pain and shock audiences. Probably Noé’s most iconic scene in his entire filmography is from his second feature, Irreversible; A prolonged and hauntingly realistic portrayal of a woman being anally raped in a Paris underpass. The scene goes on for a solid nine minutes and involves the assailant brutally penetrating Alex before…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 14

  DO NOT! I REPEAT! DO NOT TAKE CHICKS TO THIS ON A FIRST DATE!

  I have a love hate relationship with this film! I'm a pretty hardcore lady... when it comes to films I've seen it all! I see a jackhammer going into a skull... no problemo! Maggots falling out of a zombie's virginia... no problemo! But Irreversible's brutal and agonizingly long attack was almost above and beyond what I could handle! It was just too freakin REAL!

  The Cinematography will absolutely blow your mind or a gasket you choose which! I have never seen a film quite like this! Gaspar Noé is the Picasso of Film!

  Clap your hands together for the incredible performances given by Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, and Albert Dupontel!

  Love it or hate I think there is one thing everyone can agree upon, besides it being highly controversial, it was also a groundbreaking film in many different ways!

  A truly haunting film!

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  Review by G I V E N C H Y ★ 30

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  To make a great movie, you need to have a good screenplay with good dialogues, good directing, good acting, good cinematography and appropriate storytelling 

  
  Gaspar Noé : What about the scene of raping Monica Bellucci for 10 minutes 

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  Review by DirkH ★★ 26

  A visual and aural masterpiece that is ultimately brought down by its subject matter and its narrative structure.

  What Noe does here as a director is nothing short of breathtaking. It begins with a bombardment of frenetic images combined with a cascade of sounds that never eases or lets up. He sets the tone here with some arresting violent and seedy imagery. It is brutal and leaves no room for interpretation as to what Noe is set out to do here. He is fully intent on shocking and disturbing his audience.

  The aesthetic he uses to skip back through time in this a-chronological narrative is fantastic, disorienting and meticulously timed and executed. And that's really where my appreciation for this…

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  Review by Wood ★★★★ 5

  Gaspar Noé films make me want to vomit. Not because of the horrific content but because the camera spins around in circle like I just polished off a 12 pack of craft beer.

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  Review by Josephine (Girl On The Shore) ½ 29

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  (CW: rape, transphobia, homophobia)
  Even after these bodies have received some of the worst pain imaginable, Noe doesn’t seem to care about any of them. Alex is raped and we stare at the screen incapable to do something. Thanks to the structure, Noe already made the mistake of knowing this person through the act itself. This is what defines her, her introduction. Yeah, she will be “develop” and “characterize” in the next scenes, but, even when she gets a glance of humanity, he can't stop gazing at her body, in not respect her as a person. She can’t even have a normal awakening: she has to be naked and be place in a erotic and playful scene with Vincent. Even…

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  Review by Lydia Roberts ½ 6

  Gaspar Noe should be told that constantly spinning his cameras does not make him special, unique or even interesting.
  There's not a single redeeming feature in here.

  Wholly despicable. This film is completely disgusting and devoid of anything other than empty transgression, homophobia and misogyny. Noe himself makes a cameo appearance, wanking himself up in a gay club as Vincent Cassel is almost raped, and it's a fitting image in that it's all the director does. In every frame of all of his pictures there's the transcendent sense of ego and you can hear him whisper "look how fucking edgy I am", deluded into thinking he's making something worthwhile instead of the insipid and vapid droll the films are.

  What a fucking shitty film

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  Review by hollie amanda ★★★★ 5

  my parents finally caved and got disney+ so obviously this was the first thing i watched