When it was originally released in 2002, Gaspar Noé's "Irreversible" stunned audiences that were brave enough to watch it. The film was shocking and appalling and shot in a dizzying style with circling camerawork and strobe lighting that was as likely to nauseate viewers as the vicious and visceral content on screen made them wince and cringe and head up the aisles.
Noé's backwards film has been reassembled in reverse, so it tells this descent into hell in chronological order.
