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First Trailer and Poster for Gaspar Noé’s IRREVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT

First Trailer and Poster for Gaspar Noé’s IRREVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT
First look at Noé's re-edited version of his controversial 2002 film.

In 2002 writer/director Gaspar Noé (Climax; Vortex) shocked audiences with Irreversible, which told the story of three friends' (Monica Belucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontelnight out that ended in tragedy. Well, we say it ended in tragedy but Irreversible famously told its story in reverse. Now Noé has recut his film to play in chronological order.

Along with the Straight Cut, the original version of Irreversible has also been newly restored. Both versions will begin screening in US cinemas from February 10th. A UK/ROI release has yet to be announced.

"Until now, Irreversible was a deliberate puzzle," says Noé. "Presented clockwise, everything is clear, and also darker, making it easier to identify with the characters and understand the tale unfolding. The same story is no longer a tragedy, this time it is a drama that brings out the psychology of the characters and the mechanisms that lead some of them to a murderous barbarity. While Irreversible has sometimes been wrongly perceived as a 'rape and revenge' B movie, here the deadly outcome is all the more depressing. Irreversible: Straight Cut can be more easily seen as a fable on the contagion of barbarity and the command of the reptilian brain over the rational mind. This new cut is another film. You will see. Time reveals all things."

Check out the new trailer and poster below.



IRREVERSIBLE: STRAIGHT CUT poster