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The inhumanity of Irreversible
After his debut feature. Seul Contre Tous, Gaspar Noe became the new enfant terrible of French cinema. How ironic then that his second feature begins to show his intellectual limitations. In this tale of a rape avenged. told backwards, Noe clearly believes he's adopting a more developed view from the first person bigotry of his debut. But there was a complexity
to that film in that Noe infiltrated the head of his protagonist. Irreversible : ' 2 z : -.' merely offers a morality tale in reverse as opposed to the ethical enquiry. . And yet Noe remains a major new voice in cinema as he racks up the ' v -- 2
soundtrack to nausea-inducing levels. graphically illustrates what a fire-
extinguisher can do to a human being's skull and generally demonstrates
a feel for culture‘s underbelly. Alongside Bruno (L’Humanité) Dumont and .
Philippe (Sombre) Grandrieux. Noe IS at the very cutting edge of " z ' . . .
transgressive French cinema. but maybe he needs a screenwriter to i r 2 i ' ' ' ~ :
develop ideas to match his virtuoso technique. -- : " : . : v- .v Andre Gide once said: ‘Never present ideas except in terms of . .' : '
temperaments and characters.’ By reversing the story, Noe sacrifices : - - . .. .
both to an idea that seems little more developed than ‘rape is wrong, but '_ ‘ '. . ' :
revenge is no kind of answer‘. It‘s only in individual moments that Noe : : :. :' .
renders character and temperament - in boyfriend Vincent Cassel's y'. ~ -‘ " : w ,
impetuosity at a night-club, in girlfriend Monica Bellucci's horrific rape in :-~ .: ' :' -. ' " .‘ ' a
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