Irréversible

MetzgerMeister

Has anyone seen this film? During the first half an hour, there is a barely inaudible background noise which is at such a frequency that it causes human beings to become nauseous, sick etc. How many people experienced this?

kryogen

that the one with the beautiful Monica Belluci getting violated?

if so i have seen it but cant say i remember anything like that

Magic Eight Ball

I saw Irréversible in the IFI when it was first released.
I remember at the time there was a little controversy over a 10 minute rape scene.

I had to walk out of after that one guy gets beaten to death in the nightclub.

krudler

einheisserschre wrote: »

Has anyone seen this film? During the first half an hour, there is a barely inaudible background noise which is at such a frequency that it causes human beings to become nauseous, sick etc. How many people experienced this?

You probably wouldnt experience it at home but I saw it in the cinema and did feel a bit queasy, the noise is a low droning thats constant throughout the opening nightclub part and some other bits, and the constant swirling camera motion isnt the easiest thing to sit through on a big screen, still never watched it again the whole way through, the head vs fire extinguishe scene and the rape are almost unwatchable to begin with

2040

I saw this recently. It certainly is a very provocative film. I'm usually not squeamish but

that fire extinguisher scene was horrific. However, i wouldn't say that scene, and the other one, was overly gratuitous. There was a method to its madness i thought. The reverse narrative together with these scenes makes us consider the implications of our actions. The film ends so happily, but it doesn't at the same time. That's what i thought anyway.

lostexpectation

what happened to that guys latest film

kraggy

Really feel this film gets an undeserved hard time.

It's actually in my top ten. Brilliant piece of film-making. And as someone alluded to above, the ending is brilliant.

Nothing gratuituous about the extinguisher or rape scenes.

Fantastic film.

MetzgerMeister

I watched it as far as the extinguisher scene and I have to say it's not as disturbing as most people make it out to be. At least I didn't think so anyway.

johnny_ultimate

lostexpectation wrote: »

what happened to that guys latest film

Remember reading reviews of it during one of the recent film festivals - meant to be even more of a visual headache than Irreversible (in which I greatly enjoyed the headache).

While I liked this film, in particular the first forty five minutes which is wonderfully made despite the nastiness afoot, I do think the last act is perhaps overly melodramatic. That was quite possibly the goal, but I thought the film lost its edge somewhat when it started focusing on story. It is an interesting way to present a film

(even if it is basically Memento!)

but the film was definitely at its strongest during the shocking, dizzying headrush at the beginning.

RAUL DUKE

einheisserschre wrote: »

Has anyone seen this film? During the first half an hour, there is a barely inaudible background noise which is at such a frequency that it causes human beings to become nauseous, sick etc. How many people experienced this?

The music at the start is Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter-Rectum

Boom_Bap

This movie is fantastic and disturbing. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it for a second time yet though.

The lady friend was picking out a movie one evening and suggested we watched it, she obvioulsy knew nothing about it and though it was some sort of french art house thing.
After a 6 second description she decided against it.

HereticPrincess

Boom_Bap wrote: »

This movie is fantastic and disturbing. I haven't been able to bring myself to watch it for a second time yet though.

The lady friend was picking out a movie one evening and suggested we watched it, she obvioulsy knew nothing about it and though it was some sort of french art house thing.
After a 6 second description she decided against it.

Similar situation too where I was looking through my boyfriend's movies for one I hadn't seen & after asking about this movie.. It sounds like it's not for the faint hearted.

I could tell he wasn't comfortable watching it with me due to the content & thought it might freak me out, so I decided against watching it in the end.

nuimdave

other than spending €35 on play.com, anyone know where i can purchase this? amazon have been out for a while

einheisserschre

einheisserschre wrote: »

Has anyone seen this film? During the first half an hour, there is a barely inaudible background noise which is at such a frequency that it causes human beings to become nauseous, sick etc. How many people experienced this?

This was a deliberate move on Gasper Noe's part.

The first 30 minutes of the film has a background noise with a frequency of 28Hz (low frequency, almost inaudible), similar to the noise produced by an earthquake. In humans, it causes nausea, sickness and vertigo. It was the main cause of people walking out of the theaters during the first part of the film in places like Cannes and San Sebastian. In fact, it was added with the purpose of getting this reaction.

Galvasean

I always thought the noise (plus erratic camera movements) were done to make you feel drunk. Ilike the way it gradually fades away over the course of the movie.
Meant to watch the film a second time to verify but I heard that

the guy who gets smashed up by the fire extinguisher is not the actual rapist.

If so, ouch.

Makaveli

I do think this film gets a hard time based on those two scenes. People need to look past them and take them within the context of the film.

Anyway, the camera work definitely gave me motion sickness the first time I watched it. It is quite disorientating.

DazMarz

nuimdave wrote: »

other than spending €35 on play.com, anyone know where i can purchase this? amazon have been out for a while

You can get it through amazon.co.uk from one of their suppliers. I ordered it on a Friday and had it by the Tuesday of the following week. Something like €24 or so. Brand new.

Galvasean wrote: »

I always thought the noise (plus erratic camera movements) were done to make you feel drunk. Ilike the way it gradually fades away over the course of the movie.
Meant to watch the film a second time to verify but I heard that

the guy who gets smashed up by the fire extinguisher is not the actual rapist.

If so, ouch.

And no, you are correct. The guy

smashed to hell with the fire extinguisher is NOT the rapist, who is ironically in the same scene, standing at the side and grinning while watching the violence.

So yeah........

Otherwise, I thought it was a spectacularly brilliant and innovative piece of film making, wrongly derided and criticised over two scenes, for which I fear it will be remembered for.

johnny_ultimate

For people looking for the DVD, I got it in HMV a year or so ago for less than a tenner, so worth checking there or Tower (which generally has good prices for some of the more popular foreign films). However, I think there may be problems getting your hands on it given the fact that the distributors Tartan went under a while ago.