Irreversible
A film by Gaspard Noé
Released on mar 20 2003
About
Presentation
A film by Gaspar Noé
With Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel
Produced by Christophe Rossignon and Richard Grandpierre (Eskwad)
Festival de Cannes Official Selection
Sundance Film Festival
an Sebastian International Film Festival
Telluride Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival : Bronze Horse
Synopsis
Irreversible. Time destroys everything. The arrow only points one way, from our birth to our death. Each second brings multiple bifurcations. Each one is irreversible. We are not predestined but destiny writes itself. Our contribution is derisory. It barely concerns our individual survival. And death is unavoidable. Time reveals all. The best and the worst. Or the opposite. It’s all the same. As soon as they’re written, the traces of our passage already fade. Only the arrow remains. The arrow invented by our brain. Time exists only in our reptilian perception. Pain, pleasure, past or future too. What we make of the short time whilst the arrow carries us along is sometimes of our own will. We can use it to perpetuate our species, or to forget the infinite smallness of it, or to make a film,or to avenge the pain we have suffered.
US distributor (Limited release)
Lions Gate Films
