"Two thumbs up!"
Ebert & Roeper

"Amazing ! A rapt, cinematic force!"
Entertainment Weekly

"Irreversible will knock you for a loop!"
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

IRREVERSIBLE

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HK Releasing Date: 19 December 2003 (Friday)

Running Time: Appro. 95 minutes

Category: III

Theatre: Cineart (exclusive)

English Synopsis - Short

Alex and Marcus are a couple whose story is told over the course of a fateful day. It begins with a brutal killing then unspools in reverse to reveal the horrifying events that lead to the gut-wrenching, violent climax of the opening scene.

IRREVERSIBLE'S disturbing look at fate and destiny pushes the limit of human emotions and takes filmmaking to another level.

English Synopsis - Long

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 avenge the pain we have suffered. This film, written, financed and shot in record time, describes the ancestral link between a wound and vengeance. Vengeance is irreversible. So was the wound. Like every act. Like all things. The reactions to this film will be too.

It includes a severe rape scene. Monica Bellucci tells us, "When playing the rape scene, however much I knew it was not for real, on the third and fourth takes, I just could not go back into the tunnel without feeling dreadful¡K"

The film was in competition for the 2002 Festival de Cannes, where it revealed itself to be as exceptional as it is controversial.

Filmography

DIRECTOR - GASPAR NOE

- scriptwriter, cinematographer, editor, producer and director:

• "CARNE" (40 minutes)
• "SEUL CONTRE TOUS" ("I STAND ALONE") (90 minutes)

- cinematographer, designer and producer

• "LA BOUCHE DE JEAN-PIERRE" ("MIMI") - Lucile Hadzihalilovic (52 minutes)

- In preparation

• "ENTER THE VOID"

PRODUCER - CHRISTOPHE ROSSIGNON ( NORD-OUEST )

• "METISSE" - Mathieu Kassovitz - 1993
• "L'ODEUR DE LA PAPAYE VERTE" - Tran Anh Hung - 1993
• "CYCLO" - Tran Anh Hung - 1995
• "LA HAINE" ("HATE") - Mathieu Kassovitz - 1995
• "ASSASSIN(S)" - Mathieu Kassovitz - 1997
• "A LA VERTICALE DE L'ETE - Tran Anh Hung - 2000
• Georges de Beauregard Prize for Best Young Producer (1993)
• Cˆmsar for Best Producer (1996).

CO-PRODUCER - RICHARD GRANDPIERRE ( ESKWAD )

with ESKWAD

• LE CREATEUR - Albert Dupontˆml - 1999
• LES PARASITES - Philippe de Chauveron - 1999
• COMME UN AIMANT - Kamel Saleh and Akhenaton - 2000
• LES MORSURES DE L'AUBE (Love Bites) - Antoine de Caunes - 2001
• LE PACTE DES LOUPS (Brotherhood Of The Wolf)- Christophe Gans- 2001
• IRREVERSIBLE - Gaspar Noe - 2002

- Forthcoming projects include:

• BOB MORANE - Christophe Gans
• OBLIVION - Marc Caro
• ENFERME DEHORS - Albert Dupontel

ACTOR - VINCENT CASSEL

• LA HAINE (HATE) - Mathieu Kassovitz - 1995
• L'APPARTEMENT (The Apartment) - Gilles Mimouni - 1996
• DOBERMANN - Jan Kounen - 1997
• ELIZABETH - Shekhar Kapur - 1998
• JEANNE D'ARC (Joan Of Arc) - Luc Besson - 1999
• BIRTHDAY GIRL - Jez Butterworth -
• LES RIVIERES POURPRES (Crimson Rivers) - Mathieu Kassovitz - 2000
• LE PACTE DES LOUPES (Brotherhood Of The Wolf) - Christophe Gans - 2001
• The RECKONING - Paul McGuigan - 2001
• SUR MES LEVRES (On My Lips) - Jacques Audiard -2001
• IRREVERSIBLE - Gaspar Noe - 2002

ACTRESS - MONICA BELLUCCI

• DRACULA - Francis Ford Coppola - 1992
• L'APPARTEMENT (The Apartment) - Gilles Mimouni - 1996
• DOBERMANN - Jan Kounen - 1997
• UNDER SUSPICION - Stephen Hopkins - 2000
• MALENA - Giuseppe Tornatore - 2000
• LE PACTE DES LOUPS (Brotherhood Of The Wolf) - Christophe Gans - 2001
• ASTERIX & OBELIX: MISSION CLEOPATRE - Alain Chabat - 2002
• IRREVERSIBLE - Gaspar Noˆm - 2002
• THE MATRIX RELOADED - Andy and Larry Wachowski
• MAN OF WAR - Antoine Fuqua

ACTOR - ALBERT DUPONTEL

- actor and director

• BERNIE (1996)
• LE CREATEUR" (1999)

- actor

• UN HEROS TRES DISCRET - Jacques Audiard - 1996
• LA MALADIE DE SACHS - Michel Deville - 1999
• LES ACTEURS - Bertrand Blier - 2000

FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY - NORD OUEST

Nord-Ouest was founded in 1999, with the principal intention of producing feature films and advertising. The company has eight employees, including the three co-founders:

- CHRISTOPHE ROSSIGNON

Between 1990 and 1992, Rossignon produced numerous short films, including those of Mathieu Kassovitz and Tran Anh Hung, before producing - as part of the company Lazennec - their first feature films: Kassovitz's "Mˆmtisse"; "La Haine"; and "Assassin(s)"; and Tran Anh Hung's "The Scent Of Green Papaya"; "Cyclo" and "A la Vertical de l'Etˆm".

Since 1999, he has produced and developed a number of feature films with Nord-Ouest Productions, the cinema subsidiary of Nord-Ouest. In addition, Rossignon is developing several projects with Kassovitz's production company, MNP Enterprises.

- BENOIT JAUBERT

Since 2000, Jaubert has worked as a producer and on the development of several feature film projects for Nord-Ouest Productions.

A founder of Sud-Est (formerly Lazennec Vietnam), an advertising company working throughout South-East Asia, he worked on the Coca Cola, Toyota and Fuji accounts, amongst others, and acted as executive producer for films such as Tran Anh Hung's "A la Verticale de l'Etˆm".

- Philip Boeffard

Long time finance head of KPMG, Boeffard is responsible for the financial administration of Nord-Ouest and its subsidiaries, as well as MNP Enterprises..

- ESKWAD

- RICHARD GRANDPIERRE ( ESKWAD )

Established in 1997 by Richard Grandpierre, Eskwad is a subsidiary of Studio Canal, developing and co-producing feature films in close collaboration with the authors, directors and production partners.

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