Gaspar Noé's Irreversible utilizes the same storytelling technique used by Christopher Nolan in Memento and Harold Pinter in Betrayal. Consisting of about a dozen scenes, all shot in single takes, Irreversible charts a disturbing night in the life of Marcus (Vincent Cassel), but presents the events in reverse chronological order. The audience eventually learns how the beautiful Alex (Cassel's real-life partner Monica Bellucci) is involved. The film opens with a violent altercation at a gay sex club and works backward to explain how and why the violence occurred. The actors improvised the vast majority of the dialogue starting from a four-page story outline. Irreversible was screened in competition at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.




STARS.........: Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel
DIRECTOR......: Gaspar Noé
WRITERS.......: Gaspar Noé
GENRE.........: Crime, Drama, Mystery
METASCORE.....: 51
TOMATOMETER...: 57
IMDB RATING...: 7.4/10  97,606 votes
IMDB LINK.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290673
RUNTIME.......: 1h 37mn
SIZE..........: 3.84 GB
VIDEO CODEC...: HEVC ([email protected])
BITRATE.......: 5000 Kbps (2-pass)
RESOLUTION....: 1920x1080
ASPECT RATIO..: 2.35:1
FRAMERATE.....: 24 fps
AUDIO.........: French E-AC3 5.1 640kbps
SUBTITLES.....: ENG
CHAPTERS......: Yes
SOURCE........: Eagle Pictures Blu Ray
ENCODED BY....: Sartre
ENCODE DATE...: 2018-02-24



A lot of this was shot on 16mm so the grain is fairly coarse and soft. It isn't DNR'd like the Australian release