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• ‘IRREVERSIBLE,’ THE MOST UPSETTG MOVIE EVER MA, JT GOT EVEN DARKERNSFWDIRECTOR GASPAR NOé TALKS “IRRéVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT,” WHICH TAK HIS SHOCKG 2002 FILM—FULL OF RAPE, MURR, AND SLURS—AND SOMEHOW MAK EVEN MORE UNFORTABLE TO WATCH.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERUPDATED FEB. 11, 2023 2:33AM EST / PUBLISHED FEB. 10, 2023 9:42PM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ELIZABETH BROCKWAY/ALAMY/WIKICOMMONSIT’S ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKG SCEN CEMA HISTORY: A WOMAN NAMED ALEX (MONI BELLUCCI) WALKS THROUGH AN UNRPASS. WHILE WALKG, SHE WNS A MAN ATTACKG ANOTHER WOMAN. THE OTHER WOMAN MANAG TO GET AWAY, BUT ALEX IS BTALLY ATTACKED AND RAPED BY THE MAN STEAD.YOU’D EXPECT A CUTAWAY OR THE MERA TO FOC ELSEWHERE—ANYWHERE BUT THE HORRIFYG ACTN UNFOLDG. BUT DIRECTOR GASPAR NOé’S IRRéVERSIBLE, FIRST RELEASED 2002, THE MERA DON’T MOVE FOR NE HORRIFYG MUT. IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO S THROUGH, AND RE-WATCHG , I FOUND MYSELF BEGGG FOR TIME TO MOVE FASTER, OR FOR ANYTHG TO STOP WHAT I WAS SEEG OM NTUG. IT’S MORTIFYG, BUT ’S ALSO KEY TO THE FILM’S IMPACT. IRRéVERSIBLE REF TO CUT AWAY, EXPOSG YOU TO THE ABSOLUTE WORST HUMANY.THE FILM UNSURPRISGLY WAS THE SUBJECT OF GREAT NTROVERSY WHEN ME OUT. IT WASN’T JT ABOUT THE RAPE SCENE, EHER: THERE’S AN CREDIBLY GRAPHIC MURR, AND A BARRAGE OF UGLY SLURS ARE THROWN AROUND WHEN MARC (VCENT CASSEL) STORMS HIS WAY THROUGH A GAY BAR TO FD THE ASSAILANT. IRRéVERSIBLE IS A BTAL STORY ALL THE WAY THROUGH—’S NOé AT HIS MOST FEARLSLY NONTATNAL. WHILE SOME CELEBRATED S SHOCKG NTENT AND CREATIVE STORYTELLG—THE FILM UNFOLDS REVERSE CHRONOLOGIL ORR—OTHERS WERE QUICK TO NIGRATE . SLATE, FOR EXAMPLE, LLED IRRéVERSIBLE “THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC MOVIE EVER MA.” SCE MAKG IRRéVERSIBLE, NOé HAS NTUED TO PH CEMATIC BOUNDARI. 2009’S ENTER THE VOID IS AN EPIC ODYSSEY WH A FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVE THAT MA WAV FOR CLUDG AN TERNAL SEX SHOT (WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU’RE THKG). LOVE, OM 2015, FEATURED MULTIPLE SCEN OF GRAPHIC, UNSIMULATED SEX ( 3D!), AND CLIMAX (2018) IS A PSYCHELIC HORROR, WHICH A GROUP OF DANCERS HAVE THEIR DRKS SPIKED WH LSD, RULTG ABSOLUTE CHAOS.BUT IRRéVERSIBLE HAS REMAED ON NOé’S MD OVER THE LAST TWO S. NOW, HE’S BROUGHT HIS NTROVERSIAL FILM BACK WH IRRéVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT, WHICH THE DIRECTOR HAS RE-ASSEMBLED THE FILM TO CHRONOLOGIL ORR. THE RULT IS ASTONISHG, MANAGG TO BE EVEN MORE EMOTNALLY VASTATG AND DIFFICULT TO S THROUGH THAN THE ORIGAL. IT’S AN EXTREMELY CHALLENGG BUT WORTHWHILE VIEWG EXPERIENCE: THE FILM IS STILL AN ASTONISHG EXPLORATN OF HUMANY PHED TO S LIMS, AND ’S ALL BUT STED TO STICK YOUR MD FOR YEARS. REGULARLY DUBBED CEMA’S ENFANT TERRIBLE, NOé SPEAKS GENTLY BUT PASSNATELY—HARDLY WHAT YOU’D EXPECT OM A MAN WHOSE FILMS SHOCK SO MANY. AHEAD OF IRRéVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT’S FIRST AMERIN THEATRIL RELEASE THIS WEEKEND, WE SPOKE OVER ZOOM ABOUT WHAT PROMPTED NOé TO REDO THE OFT-MALIGNED FILM (WHICH HE WAS QUICK TO POT OUT THAT IS “NOT A DIRECTOR’S CUT; ’S A DIRECTOR’S RE-CUT”) AND THE IMMENSE NTROVERSY THAT SURROUNDS THIS (AND ALL) HIS WORK.I THK PART OF THE REASON I’M DRAWN TO YOUR WORK IS HOW YOU SEEM LIKE A NATURAL PROVOTR—THERE’S A THRILL SEEG WHAT YOU E UP WH NEXT. THAT SAID, MOST PEOPLE TEND TO HAVE EXTREMELY STRONG, OFTEN NEGATIVE REACTNS TO YOUR WORK. DO YOU THK TELLG IRRéVERSIBLE’S STORY REVERSE CHRONOLOGIL ORR NTRIBUTED TO S CRIL RPONSE?WHEN WE GOT THE FANCG FOR THIS MOVIE WH FAMO FRENCH ACTORS, WAS MOSTLY ON THEIR NAM, AND NOT SO MUCH ON THE STORYLE. BUT THE PRODUCER SAID, “DO YOU HAVE ANY IA FOR A MOVIE WH MONI BELLUCCI AND VCENT CASSEL?” I SAID YEAH, I HAVE THIS RAPE AND REVENGE STORY, BUT WE’RE GONNA TELL BACKWARDS. I THOUGHT WOULD BE TERTG TO START AT THE END, LIKE A TRAGEDY, WHICH YOU KNOW HOW THGS ARE GOG TO FISH, BUT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW THE EVENTS UNFOLD, SO THEN YOU GO BACK TIME.IN THE SE OF THE ORIGAL CUT, WE SHOT CHRONOLOGILLY, BUT WE EDED REVERSE. THE PEACEFUL DAY BEFORE THE DRAMA APPEARS AT THE END OF THE MOVIE, AND YOU HAVE A KD OF HAPPY ENDG, OR AT LEAST A MELANCHOLIC ENDG. WHICH IS NOT THE SE THE NEW CHRONOLOGIL CUT, WHICH THGS GET WORSE AND WORSE EVERY MUTE, AND ’S A DIRECT TRIP TO HELL.WHAT PELLED YOU TO RE-CUT THE FILM TO UNFOLD CHRONOLOGIL ORR?WHEN I FIRST SHOWED THE ORIGAL CUT TO MY PRODUCERS, THEY KNEW THAT I WANTED TO SHOW THGS BACKWARDS. BUT THEY SAID, “WHY DON’T YOU TRY TO SEE HOW FEELS LIKE TO HAVE THEM CHRONOLOGIL ORR?”BUT THE SCEN WERE PUT ONE ORR [ THE ED], AND WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO DO TWO VERSNS. I WANTED MY VERSN [TO BE THE ONE WE RELEASED], WHICH WAS THE ANTI-CHRONOLOGIL ONE. SO, WAS SHOWN CANN PETN, MA A SNDAL, WHATEVER.BUT ONE DAY, I RECEIVED A DVD OM KOREA, AND KOREA, THEY ADD AS A BON… A VERY BADLY EDED [VERSN OF THE FILM] CHRONOLOGIL ORR. AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN ASK FOR MY PERMISSN! AND I STARTED WATCHG , BUT WAS VERY BADLY DONE. SO I SAID WELL, SOMEONE SHOULD DO , BUT SHOULD BE DONE PROPERLY. AND THAT WAS 20 YEARS AGO. GASPAR NOé.JEAN-PL PELISSIER/RTERS TWO YEARS AGO, THE OWNERS OF THE RIGHTS TO THE MOVIE LLED ME TO SEE IF I WANTED TO SUPERVISE THE REMASTERG OF THE MOVIE DIGAL DCP FOR BLU-RAY. OF URSE, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT FOR THE FUTURE WORLD, THE MOVIE IS TRANSFERRED THE BT NDN, SO I CHECKED ALL THE LOR GRADG AND THE SOUND, ETC.BUT THEN, AS I WAS EDG MY OTHER MOVIE [2021’S VORTEX], I HAD MY EDORS MY EDG ROOM, AND I SAID, “WHY DON’T WE JT TRY NOW TO ED IRRéVERSIBLE PROPERLY ORR?” THEN I PROPOSED TO STUDNAL, THE OWNERS OF THE MOVIE, TO MAKE AN ALTERNATIVE VERSN AS AN EXTRA FOR THE BLU-RAY. IT TOOK ME ONLY ONE WEEK TO DO [THE RE-CUT], BUT I THOUGHT WAS SO STRONG THAT I CID I WANTED TO SHOW AT A BIG FILM FTIVAL LIKE CANN OR VENICE, AND WENT TO VENICE, AND I WANTED TO HAVE A THEATRIL RELEASE.WHAT DO YOU FEEL THE DIFFERENC BETWEEN THE ORIGAL AND THE STRAIGHT CUT ARE?WH ALL THE SCEN THE RIGHT ORR, THE PUZZLG, ARTSY EFFECT OF THE PREV VERSN TOTALLY DISAPPEARED, AND THE STORY IS PURSUED A MUCH MORE EMOTNAL WAY. IT’S MORE LIKE AN ACTOR’S MOVIE NOW, BEE YOU UNRSTAND THE CHARACTERS [BETTER], AND YOU ALSO UNRSTAND HOW BAD THGS ARE GOG, AND UNRSTAND THEIR BEHAVR MORE—PECIALLY THE SE OF THE CHARACTER PLAYED BY VCENT CASSEL. HE BEHAV LIKE A BONOBO MONKEY DURG THE WHOLE MOVIE. IN THE ORIGAL VERSN, SEEMED THAT HE WAS HEROIC, BUT THIS ONE, HE IS TOTALLY ANTI-HEROIC. IT’S ACTUALLY THE OTHER IEND [PLAYED BY ALBERT DUPONTEL] WHO’S HEROIC.ALSO, BEE THE NEW VERSN STARTS WH MONI BELLUCCI, AND YOU’RE FOLLOWG HER FOR 50 MUT, SHE BE THE MA CHARACTER THE MOVIE. YOU GET ATTACHED TO HER, AND HER PERFORMANCE IS EVEN MORE NOTICEABLE. LOTS OF PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT THE WORST THG ABOUT THIS CUT IS THAT YOU DON'T PERCEIVE THE CHARACTERS THE SAME WAY, BUT ALSO THAT ’S MUCH MORE SENTIMENTAL AND MUCH CELER THAN THE ORIGAL VERSN. THGS GET WORSE AND WORSE UNTIL THE LAST IMAGE. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK ABOUT IRRéVERSIBLE WHOUT TALKG ABOUT THE PIVOTAL RAPE SEQUENCE. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT SHOOTG THE SCENE, AND HOW YOU WORKED WH THE ACTORS THE MOMENT?WE SHOT THE MOVIE SIX WEEKS CHRONOLOGIL ORR, SO WE SHOT THAT SCENE AFTER THE PARTY SCENE, WHICH MONI BELLUCCI LEAV THE PARTY, AND THEN SHE HAS TO GO THROUGH AN UNRGROUND TUNNEL TO GET A B ON THE OTHER SI OF THE AVENUE. THE WHOLE SCRIPT, WHEN WE STARTED SHOOTG, WAS A SYNOPSIS OF THREE PAG, AND THERE WERE 12 SCEN. IT WOULD SAY SOMETHG LIKE, “THE GIRL IS GOG THROUGH THE TUNNEL AND THERE’S A MAN FIGHTG WH A WOMAN ON THE OTHER END.” I DID NOT WRE ANY DIALOGUE FOR THAT SCENE OR ANY OTHER ON. WE HAD TWO DAYS TO SHOOT , AND I TOLD THEM THAT… EVEN THOUGH ALL THE SEXUAL VLENCE IS TOTALLY SIMULATED, THEY WERE GONNA BE EXHSTED, BEE ’S AN TENSE SCENE TO PORTRAY.WE SHOT THREE TIM ON THE FIRST DAY, THREE TIM ON THE SEND DAY. I TOLD [BELLUCCI AND JO PRTIA, WHO PLAYS THE AGGRSOR] WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS JT GIVE A PACE AND LENGTH THAT SEEMS REAL. I DON’T LIKE MOVI WHICH PEOPLE HAVE TERURSE THAT LASTS 15 SENDS, BEE REAL LIFE, NEVER TAK 15 SENDS, SO I WANTED THEM TO FD THEIR OWN TIMG. LET’S MAKE AS BTAL AS N BE PORTRAYED.BUT BETWEEN TAK, THE TWO ACTORS, MONI AND JO PRTIA, WERE LGHG. THEY WERE WATCHG THE MATERIAL, AND THEY WOULD SAY, “OH, PEOPLE ARE GOG TO SCREAM THE THEATER! IT’S FUNNY, LOOKS SO REAL!” BUT THAT’S THE MAGIC OF DOG MOVI. IT’S LIKE PULLG A RABB OUT OF THE HAT, AND PEOPLE REALLY BELIEVE ’S REAL.THAT’S SO WILD TO THK ABOUT, SCE I SPENT MOST OF THE TIME WATCHG NSTANTLY REASSURG MYSELF THAT WASN’T REAL TO GET THROUGH !AT THE END OF THAT SCENE, YOU BRIEFLY SEE THE GENALS OF THE AGGRSOR. THOSE WERE [IALLY NOT THE SHOT], BEE THE ZIP OF HIS PANTS WAS CLOSED, AND THEN WHEN HE MOVED BACK, I SAID, “SH!” BEE DON’T LOOK REAL, BEE HIS ZIP IS CLOSED. SO WE ADD THE GENALS DIGALLY, SO THAT LOOKS MORE REAL. ALAMY HOW DO YOU THK THE STRAIGHT CUT WILL BE PERCEIVED 2023? DO YOU ANTICIPATE A STRONGER REACTN NOW THAN WHEN THE ORIGAL VERSN OF THE FILM WAS RELEASED?THE MOVIE IS BEG RELEASED NOW THE STAT, BUT WAS ALREADY RELEASED TWO YEARS AGO FRANCE, JAPAN, RSIA, AND OTHER UNTRI. SO I ALREADY KNOW HOW PEOPLE REACT TO THE MOVIE. [THE REACTN WAS LARGELY THE SAME, WH A MIX OF THE VERY POSIVE AND VERY NEGATIVE.]WHAT’S REALLY CHANGED [PEOPLE’S PERCEPTN OF THE MOVIE] IS ALL THE THGS THAT HAPPENED THE LAST FIVE YEARS. WH THE #METOO MOVEMENT, PEOPLE SPEAK VERY LOUDLY ABOUT SEXUAL AGGRSN AND SEXUAL ABE. AND ON THE OTHER SI [AS A FILMMAKER], IS MORE DIFFICULT NOWADAYS TO PORTRAY THOSE KDS OF SCEN.IT SEEMS KD OF WEIRD THAT THIS MOVIE IS G OUT NOW, BEE WAS SHOT 20 YEARS AGO, AND WAS ALREADY A DARG WAY TO PORTRAY AT THE TIME. BUT NOW, SEEMS EVEN MORE DARG, BEE NO ONE WOULD GET THE FANCG TO PORTRAY SUCH A SCENE THAT WAY NOW.DO YOU THK ABOUT IRRéVERSIBLE DIFFERENTLY TO HOW YOU DID 2002?IRRéVERSIBLE WAS JT ONE MOVIE. NOW ’S LIKE, I HAVE THE FEELG THAT WHOUT NOTICG , I HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO TWO BABI. ONE WAS THE BOY, OR THAT I REGNIZED AS MY BABY. AND THEN 20 YEARS LATER, I FD OUT THAT ACTUALLY, THERE WAS A TW SISTER THAT IS VERY SIAR BUT ALSO THE OPPOSE OF THE BROTHER. AND SO NOW THERE ARE TWO SIBLGS THE WORLD.YOU HAVE THE ORIGAL MOVIE, WHICH IS THE DIRECTOR’S CUT THAT IS NCEPTUAL OR EXPERIMENTAL, AND THIS ONE IS MUCH MORE CLEAR. I LIKE THE FACT THAT I CREATED SUCH A MOVIE WH TWO SIS, BEE I DON’T KNOW ANY OTHER MOVIE THAT EVER PLAYED THAT GAME, AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW ANY NOVEL THAT N BE READ BOTH SENS. YOU’VE ALLUD TO THIS ALREADY, BUT THE CULTURE HAS SHIFTED SO MUCH SCE IRRéVERSIBLE FIRST ME OUT, AND THERE’S A LOT MORE UTN AROUND THE IA OF BEG “PROBLEMATIC” AND OFFENDG PEOPLE.THE CHARACTERS, WHEN THEY GET ANGRY, PARTICULARLY CASSEL’S, BEE HOMOPHOBIC, DO RACIST THGS, ANTI-FEMIST THGS. ALL THE THGS THAT PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT NOWADAYS ARE ALL THE SAME MOVIE. ALSO, THEY’RE NOT JT SAID AND DONE BY THE EVIL CHARACTERS. THEY’RE G OM THE MA CHARACTERS. THEY’RE NOT GOOD OR BAD, BUT THEY’RE JT HUMAN.DO THE CULTURE SHIFT RECENT YEARS ENURAGE YOU TO GO FURTHER AGAST THE GRA AND PH BOUNDARI MORE? OR DO GIVE YOU PSE TO RENSIR WHAT STORI YOU TELL AND HOW YOU TELL THEM?I’M NOT GONNA DO ANOTHER MOVIE OF THIS KD THE NEAR FUTURE OR THE FAR FUTURE… I’D RATHER MOVE TO SOMETHG ELSE, BUT I DON’T KNOW YET WHAT’S GOG TO BE MY NEXT PROJECT. I LIKE MAKG MOVI THAT ARE R-RATED OR NC-17, BEE ONLY ADULT PEOPLE N SEE THE MOVI. IF I SEE A MOVIE THAT HAS A NC-17 RATG, OR THE EQUIVALENT FRANCE, I SAY, “OH, THIS MT BE A GOOD MOVIE, BEE CERTALY SHOWS THGS THAT ARE SHOCKG FOR MOST VIEWERS.” “I LIKE MAKG MOVI THAT ARE R-RATED OR NC-17, BEE ONLY ADULT PEOPLE N SEE THE MOVI. ” IRRéVERSIBLE IS FORMALLY IMPRSIVE REGARDLS OF THE WAY THGS ARE ORRED, AND THE LONG TAK PLAY A BIG PART THAT. WHY DID YOU CI TO FILM MOST OF THE FILM WH LONG TAK? WERE THERE CHALLENG THAT ME WH THAT?ON THE ONE HAND, I THOUGHT WOULD BE EASIER TO DIRECT THE ACTORS BY DOG LONG TAK, BEE ONCE YOU START THE REHEARSALS… AND THEN YOU START SHOOTG FOR REAL, THERE’S A LLECTIVE ENERGY THAT WORKS VERY WELL. IT MAK THGS GO FASTER. IF YOU HAVE TO DO ONE CLOSE-UP, THEN THE REVERSE CLOSE-UP, THEN ANOTHER SHOT, YOU’RE STOPPG THE ENERGY ALL THE TIME, AND YOU’RE AGMENTG THE REAL-TIME TO SMALL PSUL THAT ACTUALLY TAKE MUCH, MUCH LONGER.ALSO, THE EDG PROCS BE MUCH LONGER, BEE YOU OVER-ED OR OVER-VER THE SCENE. SCE I HAD TO SHOOT THE WHOLE MOVIE SIX WEEKS, I THOUGHT DOG EVERY SCENE ONE LONG TAKE WOULD BE EASIER. AFTER WORKG ON THE STRAIGHT CUT, ARE THERE ANY OTHER OF YOUR FILMS THAT YOU’D LIKE TO REVIS?SOME PEOPLE TELL ME I SHOULD DO A 3D VERSN OF ENTER THE VOID, BUT WOULD TAKE SO MUCH WORK.I’M GONNA START THE RTORATN OF CARNE AND I STAND ALONE, MY FIRST MOVI. I’M GONNA DO A NICE CLEAN PRT WH THOSE MOVI, AND WILL BE A WAY OF REVISG MY FIRST FEATUR—BUT WHOUT ADDG ANYTHG PARTICULAR. BARRY LEVT
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‘IRREVERSIBLE,’ THE MOST UPSETTG MOVIE EVER MA, JT GOT EVEN DARKERNSFWDIRECTOR GASPAR NOé TALKS “IRRéVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT,” WHICH TAK HIS SHOCKG 2002 FILM—FULL OF RAPE, MURR, AND SLURS—AND SOMEHOW MAK EVEN MORE UNFORTABLE TO WATCH.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERUPDATED FEB. 11, 2023 2:33AM EST / PUBLISHED FEB. 10, 2023 9:42PM EST PHOTO ILLTRATN BY ELIZABETH BROCKWAY/ALAMY/WIKICOMMONSIT’S ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKG SCEN CEMA HISTORY: A WOMAN NAMED ALEX (MONI BELLUCCI) WALKS THROUGH AN UNRPASS. WHILE WALKG, SHE WNS A MAN ATTACKG ANOTHER WOMAN. THE OTHER WOMAN MANAG TO GET AWAY, BUT ALEX IS BTALLY ATTACKED AND RAPED BY THE MAN STEAD.YOU’D EXPECT A CUTAWAY OR THE MERA TO FOC ELSEWHERE—ANYWHERE BUT THE HORRIFYG ACTN UNFOLDG. BUT DIRECTOR GASPAR NOé’S IRRéVERSIBLE, FIRST RELEASED 2002, THE MERA DON’T MOVE FOR NE HORRIFYG MUT. IT’S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO S THROUGH, AND RE-WATCHG , I FOUND MYSELF BEGGG FOR TIME TO MOVE FASTER, OR FOR ANYTHG TO STOP WHAT I WAS SEEG OM NTUG. IT’S MORTIFYG, BUT ’S ALSO KEY TO THE FILM’S IMPACT. IRRéVERSIBLE REF TO CUT AWAY, EXPOSG YOU TO THE ABSOLUTE WORST HUMANY.THE FILM UNSURPRISGLY WAS THE SUBJECT OF GREAT NTROVERSY WHEN ME OUT. IT WASN’T JT ABOUT THE RAPE SCENE, EHER: THERE’S AN CREDIBLY GRAPHIC MURR, AND A BARRAGE OF UGLY SLURS ARE THROWN AROUND WHEN MARC (VCENT CASSEL) STORMS HIS WAY THROUGH A GAY BAR TO FD THE ASSAILANT. IRRéVERSIBLE IS A BTAL STORY ALL THE WAY THROUGH—’S NOé AT HIS MOST FEARLSLY NONTATNAL. WHILE SOME CELEBRATED S SHOCKG NTENT AND CREATIVE STORYTELLG—THE FILM UNFOLDS REVERSE CHRONOLOGIL ORR—OTHERS WERE QUICK TO NIGRATE . SLATE, FOR EXAMPLE, LLED IRRéVERSIBLE “THE MOST HOMOPHOBIC MOVIE EVER MA.” SCE MAKG IRRéVERSIBLE, NOé HAS NTUED TO PH CEMATIC BOUNDARI. 2009’S ENTER THE VOID IS AN EPIC ODYSSEY WH A FIRST-PERSON PERSPECTIVE THAT MA WAV FOR CLUDG AN TERNAL SEX SHOT (WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU’RE THKG). LOVE, OM 2015, FEATURED MULTIPLE SCEN OF GRAPHIC, UNSIMULATED SEX ( 3D!), AND CLIMAX (2018) IS A PSYCHELIC HORROR, WHICH A GROUP OF DANCERS HAVE THEIR DRKS SPIKED WH LSD, RULTG ABSOLUTE CHAOS.BUT IRRéVERSIBLE HAS REMAED ON NOé’S MD OVER THE LAST TWO S. NOW, HE’S BROUGHT HIS NTROVERSIAL FILM BACK WH IRRéVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT, WHICH THE DIRECTOR HAS RE-ASSEMBLED THE FILM TO CHRONOLOGIL ORR. THE RULT IS ASTONISHG, MANAGG TO BE EVEN MORE EMOTNALLY VASTATG AND DIFFICULT TO S THROUGH THAN THE ORIGAL. IT’S AN EXTREMELY CHALLENGG BUT WORTHWHILE VIEWG EXPERIENCE: THE FILM IS STILL AN ASTONISHG EXPLORATN OF HUMANY PHED TO S LIMS, AND ’S ALL BUT STED TO STICK YOUR MD FOR YEARS. REGULARLY DUBBED CEMA’S ENFANT TERRIBLE, NOé SPEAKS GENTLY BUT PASSNATELY—HARDLY WHAT YOU’D EXPECT OM A MAN WHOSE FILMS SHOCK SO MANY. AHEAD OF IRRéVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT’S FIRST AMERIN THEATRIL RELEASE THIS WEEKEND, WE SPOKE OVER ZOOM ABOUT WHAT PROMPTED NOé TO REDO THE OFT-MALIGNED FILM (WHICH HE WAS QUICK TO POT OUT THAT IS “NOT A DIRECTOR’S CUT; ’S A DIRECTOR’S RE-CUT”) AND THE IMMENSE NTROVERSY THAT SURROUNDS THIS (AND ALL) HIS WORK.I THK PART OF THE REASON I’M DRAWN TO YOUR WORK IS HOW YOU SEEM LIKE A NATURAL PROVOTR—THERE’S A THRILL SEEG WHAT YOU E UP WH NEXT. THAT SAID, MOST PEOPLE TEND TO HAVE EXTREMELY STRONG, OFTEN NEGATIVE REACTNS TO YOUR WORK. DO YOU THK TELLG IRRéVERSIBLE’S STORY REVERSE CHRONOLOGIL ORR NTRIBUTED TO S CRIL RPONSE?WHEN WE GOT THE FANCG FOR THIS MOVIE WH FAMO FRENCH ACTORS, WAS MOSTLY ON THEIR NAM, AND NOT SO MUCH ON THE STORYLE. BUT THE PRODUCER SAID, “DO YOU HAVE ANY IA FOR A MOVIE WH MONI BELLUCCI AND VCENT CASSEL?” I SAID YEAH, I HAVE THIS RAPE AND REVENGE STORY, BUT WE’RE GONNA TELL BACKWARDS. I THOUGHT WOULD BE TERTG TO START AT THE END, LIKE A TRAGEDY, WHICH YOU KNOW HOW THGS ARE GOG TO FISH, BUT YOU DON’T KNOW HOW THE EVENTS UNFOLD, SO THEN YOU GO BACK TIME.IN THE SE OF THE ORIGAL CUT, WE SHOT CHRONOLOGILLY, BUT WE EDED REVERSE. THE PEACEFUL DAY BEFORE THE DRAMA APPEARS AT THE END OF THE MOVIE, AND YOU HAVE A KD OF HAPPY ENDG, OR AT LEAST A MELANCHOLIC ENDG. WHICH IS NOT THE SE THE NEW CHRONOLOGIL CUT, WHICH THGS GET WORSE AND WORSE EVERY MUTE, AND ’S A DIRECT TRIP TO HELL.WHAT PELLED YOU TO RE-CUT THE FILM TO UNFOLD CHRONOLOGIL ORR?WHEN I FIRST SHOWED THE ORIGAL CUT TO MY PRODUCERS, THEY KNEW THAT I WANTED TO SHOW THGS BACKWARDS. BUT THEY SAID, “WHY DON’T YOU TRY TO SEE HOW FEELS LIKE TO HAVE THEM CHRONOLOGIL ORR?”BUT THE SCEN WERE PUT ONE ORR [ THE ED], AND WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO DO TWO VERSNS. I WANTED MY VERSN [TO BE THE ONE WE RELEASED], WHICH WAS THE ANTI-CHRONOLOGIL ONE. SO, WAS SHOWN CANN PETN, MA A SNDAL, WHATEVER.BUT ONE DAY, I RECEIVED A DVD OM KOREA, AND KOREA, THEY ADD AS A BON… A VERY BADLY EDED [VERSN OF THE FILM] CHRONOLOGIL ORR. AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN ASK FOR MY PERMISSN! AND I STARTED WATCHG , BUT WAS VERY BADLY DONE. SO I SAID WELL, SOMEONE SHOULD DO , BUT SHOULD BE DONE PROPERLY. AND THAT WAS 20 YEARS AGO. GASPAR NOé.JEAN-PL PELISSIER/RTERS TWO YEARS AGO, THE OWNERS OF THE RIGHTS TO THE MOVIE LLED ME TO SEE IF I WANTED TO SUPERVISE THE REMASTERG OF THE MOVIE DIGAL DCP FOR BLU-RAY. OF URSE, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT FOR THE FUTURE WORLD, THE MOVIE IS TRANSFERRED THE BT NDN, SO I CHECKED ALL THE LOR GRADG AND THE SOUND, ETC.BUT THEN, AS I WAS EDG MY OTHER MOVIE [2021’S VORTEX], I HAD MY EDORS MY EDG ROOM, AND I SAID, “WHY DON’T WE JT TRY NOW TO ED IRRéVERSIBLE PROPERLY ORR?” THEN I PROPOSED TO STUDNAL, THE OWNERS OF THE MOVIE, TO MAKE AN ALTERNATIVE VERSN AS AN EXTRA FOR THE BLU-RAY. IT TOOK ME ONLY ONE WEEK TO DO [THE RE-CUT], BUT I THOUGHT WAS SO STRONG THAT I CID I WANTED TO SHOW AT A BIG FILM FTIVAL LIKE CANN OR VENICE, AND WENT TO VENICE, AND I WANTED TO HAVE A THEATRIL RELEASE.WHAT DO YOU FEEL THE DIFFERENC BETWEEN THE ORIGAL AND THE STRAIGHT CUT ARE?WH ALL THE SCEN THE RIGHT ORR, THE PUZZLG, ARTSY EFFECT OF THE PREV VERSN TOTALLY DISAPPEARED, AND THE STORY IS PURSUED A MUCH MORE EMOTNAL WAY. IT’S MORE LIKE AN ACTOR’S MOVIE NOW, BEE YOU UNRSTAND THE CHARACTERS [BETTER], AND YOU ALSO UNRSTAND HOW BAD THGS ARE GOG, AND UNRSTAND THEIR BEHAVR MORE—PECIALLY THE SE OF THE CHARACTER PLAYED BY VCENT CASSEL. HE BEHAV LIKE A BONOBO MONKEY DURG THE WHOLE MOVIE. IN THE ORIGAL VERSN, SEEMED THAT HE WAS HEROIC, BUT THIS ONE, HE IS TOTALLY ANTI-HEROIC. IT’S ACTUALLY THE OTHER IEND [PLAYED BY ALBERT DUPONTEL] WHO’S HEROIC.ALSO, BEE THE NEW VERSN STARTS WH MONI BELLUCCI, AND YOU’RE FOLLOWG HER FOR 50 MUT, SHE BE THE MA CHARACTER THE MOVIE. YOU GET ATTACHED TO HER, AND HER PERFORMANCE IS EVEN MORE NOTICEABLE. LOTS OF PEOPLE TOLD ME THAT THE WORST THG ABOUT THIS CUT IS THAT YOU DON'T PERCEIVE THE CHARACTERS THE SAME WAY, BUT ALSO THAT ’S MUCH MORE SENTIMENTAL AND MUCH CELER THAN THE ORIGAL VERSN. THGS GET WORSE AND WORSE UNTIL THE LAST IMAGE. IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TALK ABOUT IRRéVERSIBLE WHOUT TALKG ABOUT THE PIVOTAL RAPE SEQUENCE. CAN YOU TALK ABOUT SHOOTG THE SCENE, AND HOW YOU WORKED WH THE ACTORS THE MOMENT?WE SHOT THE MOVIE SIX WEEKS CHRONOLOGIL ORR, SO WE SHOT THAT SCENE AFTER THE PARTY SCENE, WHICH MONI BELLUCCI LEAV THE PARTY, AND THEN SHE HAS TO GO THROUGH AN UNRGROUND TUNNEL TO GET A B ON THE OTHER SI OF THE AVENUE. THE WHOLE SCRIPT, WHEN WE STARTED SHOOTG, WAS A SYNOPSIS OF THREE PAG, AND THERE WERE 12 SCEN. IT WOULD SAY SOMETHG LIKE, “THE GIRL IS GOG THROUGH THE TUNNEL AND THERE’S A MAN FIGHTG WH A WOMAN ON THE OTHER END.” I DID NOT WRE ANY DIALOGUE FOR THAT SCENE OR ANY OTHER ON. WE HAD TWO DAYS TO SHOOT , AND I TOLD THEM THAT… EVEN THOUGH ALL THE SEXUAL VLENCE IS TOTALLY SIMULATED, THEY WERE GONNA BE EXHSTED, BEE ’S AN TENSE SCENE TO PORTRAY.WE SHOT THREE TIM ON THE FIRST DAY, THREE TIM ON THE SEND DAY. I TOLD [BELLUCCI AND JO PRTIA, WHO PLAYS THE AGGRSOR] WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS JT GIVE A PACE AND LENGTH THAT SEEMS REAL. I DON’T LIKE MOVI WHICH PEOPLE HAVE TERURSE THAT LASTS 15 SENDS, BEE REAL LIFE, NEVER TAK 15 SENDS, SO I WANTED THEM TO FD THEIR OWN TIMG. LET’S MAKE AS BTAL AS N BE PORTRAYED.BUT BETWEEN TAK, THE TWO ACTORS, MONI AND JO PRTIA, WERE LGHG. THEY WERE WATCHG THE MATERIAL, AND THEY WOULD SAY, “OH, PEOPLE ARE GOG TO SCREAM THE THEATER! IT’S FUNNY, LOOKS SO REAL!” BUT THAT’S THE MAGIC OF DOG MOVI. IT’S LIKE PULLG A RABB OUT OF THE HAT, AND PEOPLE REALLY BELIEVE ’S REAL.THAT’S SO WILD TO THK ABOUT, SCE I SPENT MOST OF THE TIME WATCHG NSTANTLY REASSURG MYSELF THAT WASN’T REAL TO GET THROUGH !AT THE END OF THAT SCENE, YOU BRIEFLY SEE THE GENALS OF THE AGGRSOR. THOSE WERE [IALLY NOT THE SHOT], BEE THE ZIP OF HIS PANTS WAS CLOSED, AND THEN WHEN HE MOVED BACK, I SAID, “SH!” BEE DON’T LOOK REAL, BEE HIS ZIP IS CLOSED. SO WE ADD THE GENALS DIGALLY, SO THAT LOOKS MORE REAL. ALAMY HOW DO YOU THK THE STRAIGHT CUT WILL BE PERCEIVED 2023? DO YOU ANTICIPATE A STRONGER REACTN NOW THAN WHEN THE ORIGAL VERSN OF THE FILM WAS RELEASED?THE MOVIE IS BEG RELEASED NOW THE STAT, BUT WAS ALREADY RELEASED TWO YEARS AGO FRANCE, JAPAN, RSIA, AND OTHER UNTRI. SO I ALREADY KNOW HOW PEOPLE REACT TO THE MOVIE. [THE REACTN WAS LARGELY THE SAME, WH A MIX OF THE VERY POSIVE AND VERY NEGATIVE.]WHAT’S REALLY CHANGED [PEOPLE’S PERCEPTN OF THE MOVIE] IS ALL THE THGS THAT HAPPENED THE LAST FIVE YEARS. WH THE #METOO MOVEMENT, PEOPLE SPEAK VERY LOUDLY ABOUT SEXUAL AGGRSN AND SEXUAL ABE. AND ON THE OTHER SI [AS A FILMMAKER], IS MORE DIFFICULT NOWADAYS TO PORTRAY THOSE KDS OF SCEN.IT SEEMS KD OF WEIRD THAT THIS MOVIE IS G OUT NOW, BEE WAS SHOT 20 YEARS AGO, AND WAS ALREADY A DARG WAY TO PORTRAY AT THE TIME. BUT NOW, SEEMS EVEN MORE DARG, BEE NO ONE WOULD GET THE FANCG TO PORTRAY SUCH A SCENE THAT WAY NOW.DO YOU THK ABOUT IRRéVERSIBLE DIFFERENTLY TO HOW YOU DID 2002?IRRéVERSIBLE WAS JT ONE MOVIE. NOW ’S LIKE, I HAVE THE FEELG THAT WHOUT NOTICG , I HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO TWO BABI. ONE WAS THE BOY, OR THAT I REGNIZED AS MY BABY. AND THEN 20 YEARS LATER, I FD OUT THAT ACTUALLY, THERE WAS A TW SISTER THAT IS VERY SIAR BUT ALSO THE OPPOSE OF THE BROTHER. AND SO NOW THERE ARE TWO SIBLGS THE WORLD.YOU HAVE THE ORIGAL MOVIE, WHICH IS THE DIRECTOR’S CUT THAT IS NCEPTUAL OR EXPERIMENTAL, AND THIS ONE IS MUCH MORE CLEAR. I LIKE THE FACT THAT I CREATED SUCH A MOVIE WH TWO SIS, BEE I DON’T KNOW ANY OTHER MOVIE THAT EVER PLAYED THAT GAME, AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW ANY NOVEL THAT N BE READ BOTH SENS. YOU’VE ALLUD TO THIS ALREADY, BUT THE CULTURE HAS SHIFTED SO MUCH SCE IRRéVERSIBLE FIRST ME OUT, AND THERE’S A LOT MORE UTN AROUND THE IA OF BEG “PROBLEMATIC” AND OFFENDG PEOPLE.THE CHARACTERS, WHEN THEY GET ANGRY, PARTICULARLY CASSEL’S, BEE HOMOPHOBIC, DO RACIST THGS, ANTI-FEMIST THGS. ALL THE THGS THAT PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT NOWADAYS ARE ALL THE SAME MOVIE. ALSO, THEY’RE NOT JT SAID AND DONE BY THE EVIL CHARACTERS. THEY’RE G OM THE MA CHARACTERS. THEY’RE NOT GOOD OR BAD, BUT THEY’RE JT HUMAN.DO THE CULTURE SHIFT RECENT YEARS ENURAGE YOU TO GO FURTHER AGAST THE GRA AND PH BOUNDARI MORE? OR DO GIVE YOU PSE TO RENSIR WHAT STORI YOU TELL AND HOW YOU TELL THEM?I’M NOT GONNA DO ANOTHER MOVIE OF THIS KD THE NEAR FUTURE OR THE FAR FUTURE… I’D RATHER MOVE TO SOMETHG ELSE, BUT I DON’T KNOW YET WHAT’S GOG TO BE MY NEXT PROJECT. I LIKE MAKG MOVI THAT ARE R-RATED OR NC-17, BEE ONLY ADULT PEOPLE N SEE THE MOVI. IF I SEE A MOVIE THAT HAS A NC-17 RATG, OR THE EQUIVALENT FRANCE, I SAY, “OH, THIS MT BE A GOOD MOVIE, BEE CERTALY SHOWS THGS THAT ARE SHOCKG FOR MOST VIEWERS.” “I LIKE MAKG MOVI THAT ARE R-RATED OR NC-17, BEE ONLY ADULT PEOPLE N SEE THE MOVI. ” IRRéVERSIBLE IS FORMALLY IMPRSIVE REGARDLS OF THE WAY THGS ARE ORRED, AND THE LONG TAK PLAY A BIG PART THAT. WHY DID YOU CI TO FILM MOST OF THE FILM WH LONG TAK? WERE THERE CHALLENG THAT ME WH THAT?ON THE ONE HAND, I THOUGHT WOULD BE EASIER TO DIRECT THE ACTORS BY DOG LONG TAK, BEE ONCE YOU START THE REHEARSALS… AND THEN YOU START SHOOTG FOR REAL, THERE’S A LLECTIVE ENERGY THAT WORKS VERY WELL. IT MAK THGS GO FASTER. IF YOU HAVE TO DO ONE CLOSE-UP, THEN THE REVERSE CLOSE-UP, THEN ANOTHER SHOT, YOU’RE STOPPG THE ENERGY ALL THE TIME, AND YOU’RE AGMENTG THE REAL-TIME TO SMALL PSUL THAT ACTUALLY TAKE MUCH, MUCH LONGER.ALSO, THE EDG PROCS BE MUCH LONGER, BEE YOU OVER-ED OR OVER-VER THE SCENE. SCE I HAD TO SHOOT THE WHOLE MOVIE SIX WEEKS, I THOUGHT DOG EVERY SCENE ONE LONG TAKE WOULD BE EASIER. AFTER WORKG ON THE STRAIGHT CUT, ARE THERE ANY OTHER OF YOUR FILMS THAT YOU’D LIKE TO REVIS?SOME PEOPLE TELL ME I SHOULD DO A 3D VERSN OF ENTER THE VOID, BUT WOULD TAKE SO MUCH WORK.I’M GONNA START THE RTORATN OF CARNE AND I STAND ALONE, MY FIRST MOVI. I’M GONNA DO A NICE CLEAN PRT WH THOSE MOVI, AND WILL BE A WAY OF REVISG MY FIRST FEATUR—BUT WHOUT ADDG ANYTHG PARTICULAR. BARRY LEVT

It opens wh a savage beatg a gay S&M club.

The movie opens on a gay uple pontifitg on how Time stroys everythg - and you don't get what this actually means till you've watched the entire movie and then started watchg aga to unrstand what the hell you've jt seen. From this scene you move on to a body beg taken out of a gay s&m club lled, y, Rectum. As much talk has revolved around s two signature sequenc – one a nseatg plunge to a gay BDSM club lled The Rectum, the other a ne-mute sexual asslt wh the mera almost lerally bolted to the floor – words alone n’t acunt for theatril experience of seeg 20 years ago.

This is still a film that picts a gay nightclub as a viant, animalistic hell and stag a rape scene of such unblkg btaly that n feel, to some, like a sadistic dare. The scene then shifts to Marc beg taken to a hospal om “The Rectum”, a gay nightclub. In one scene, Marc enters Rectum, a hardre gay club, tumblg down a crimson rabb hole filled wh leather-clad men, bondage swgs and cha rtrats, manially searchg for the assailant.

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At the very begng of Irreversible, a scene set a gay BDSM club, a man’s arm is shown snappg backwards while another has his head slowly smashed to a pulp by a fire extguisher.

Be warned: the below scene is clud his meo to curb accatns of homophobiaAcrdg to Noé, when inic Giallo director Dar Argento (The Bird wh the Crystal Plumage) saw a preview of the BDSM club scene, he warned, “The gay muny is gog to give you hell! It was stupid, but still everybody noticed that I was part of the club so I uld not be homophobic while beg exced while the club.

It’s unclear at first why two men are huntg through a gay sex club lled The Rectum and you would assume they are homophobic bashers. While one would assume this is the worst, the rape scene that ced the gay club vlence is probably one of the most difficult scen to watch. them to a gay S&M club lled Rectum, where their enzied hunt for the rapist "Le Tenia" leads them to a vic showdown wh the nizens of.

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The first part starts a gay club Paris, where Pierre and Marc are searchg for the man who raped Marc' girliend. The old man talks about why he was prison (he slept wh his dghter) mera then pans out the wdow to a gay club lled "The Rectum". He asks around to the guys the gay club, but nobody will answer.

It wasn’t jt about the rape scene, eher: There’s an credibly graphic murr, and a barrage of ugly slurs are thrown around when Marc (Vcent Cassel) storms his way through a gay bar to fd the assailant.

Slate, for example, lled Irréversible “the most homophobic movie ever ma. I like the fact that I created such a movie wh two sis, bee I don’t know any other movie that ever played that game, and I don’t even know any novel that n be read both ’ve allud to this already, but the culture has shifted so much sce Irréversible first me out, and there’s a lot more utn around the ia of beg “problematic” and offendg characters, when they get angry, particularly Cassel’s, bee homophobic, do racist thgs, anti-femist thgs.