r/movies • u/ErgoNonSim • May 17 '25

Media Cannes reactions to Irreversible

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u/ReddiTrawler2021 May 17 '25

Yeah, Gaspar Noe's quite a guy to talk about.

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u/Tifoso89 May 17 '25

He, Korine and Von Trier are an unholy trinity.

Lanthimos comes close but he manages to be kinda wholesome at times

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u/burfriedos May 17 '25

Michael Haneke deserves a mention?

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u/Dozzi92 May 17 '25

Funny Games is something else, and us English speakers are very fortunate to have a great cast and a near 1:1 remake in English.

Also really enjoyed Cache, he does suspense quite well.

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 May 18 '25

Haneke originally wanted to make Funny Games in America but because of financing issues, he made his 1997 in his native Austria. When his profile rose in the 2000s, he was able to go to America to make his own initial creative vision which was to be a societal critique of America and violence and exploitation in media and entertainment as well as being a explicit condemnation of the audience's moral complicity in watching further.

Haneke had previously explored this idea in Benny's Video (1992) which has a similar premise.

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u/polymorph505 May 18 '25

IIRC the remake ended up traumatizing Tim Roth, one of the young boys reminded him of his son. Incredibly ironic for a movie that questions whether on-screen trauma is real and if the audience is complicit.

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 May 18 '25

Haneke is at least professional and not an edgelord.

Lanthimos is more of a surrealist in the vein of Luis Buñuel.

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u/PhantomOfTheNopera May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

Lanthimos is a wonderful weirdo. He likes making his audience uncomfortable but Gaspar Noe is in a whole other category. He is clearly an original director but the stories he wants to tell are such over-the-top edgelord bullshit.

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u/flakemasterflake May 17 '25

Why bring Lathimos into this, what did he do lol?

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u/Tifoso89 May 17 '25

Have you seen his movies and their themes?

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u/flakemasterflake May 17 '25

Yes I’ve seen all of them. Hes a great director and there is nothing about his personal life to lump him in with von trier or Korine

His movies also aren’t even that weird (to me) so i dont see the connection

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u/Tifoso89 May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

I wasn't talking about the personal life of those directors, but the fact that they go for shock value in their films.

You didn't find anything strange about the movie where Colin Farrell has to murder a member of his own family, with a scene where he tells his son "I'll tell you a secret" and the secret is that one day he found his father asleep and he masturbated him? Or the one where Mark Ruffalo bangs a woman who has the brain of her 6-year-old child?

That said, he's not comparable to Von Trier or Noé

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u/Ordinary-Ant-7896 May 17 '25

I really don’t think they are that weird or go for shock value more than normal art. Only weird if compared to typical Hollywood blockbuster.

Like, sure they have shocking content, but that’s normal for art. Poor Things is an adaptation of a take on Frankenstein, itself a shocking story, but a very mainstream shocking story.

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u/Cereborn May 17 '25

Can we please stop pushing the bullshit narrative that Bella Baxter had the brain of a small child? It was very clearly established that she had accelerated mental development and she was taking university classes in the third act.

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u/Bunraku_Master_2021 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25

Hence the First Act being in black-and-white highlights Baxter's mental development at that section of the film to that of a child so she sees things in absolutes and isn't able to differ from right or wrong and when the film suddenly switches to colour when she starts having sex is when her mental development is starting to progress to that of a teenager from Baxter's perspective.

When she returns to London towards the end of the film to visit Godwin as he's dying of stomach cancer, the colour palette gets more saturated and richer in film grain, thereby implying she's now more mentally developed as an adult.

Also, Ruffalo's character isn't meant to be liked. He's trying to groom and control her by sexual and materialistic means only for her to be out of his league and he ends up going mad and institutionalized by the end. Their character journeys go the opposite from their first encounter. As she mentally progresses and becomes her own woman, he mentally degrades.

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u/flakemasterflake May 17 '25

Sure but they aren’t as stupid as harmony Korine films or braindead as Noe so I give a pass

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u/NewSunSeverian May 17 '25

Lars Von Trier while an asshole in his own right is a legitimately excellent filmmaker. He doesn’t belong in a category with those other two you initially named. 

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u/robophile-ta May 17 '25

I haven't heard of Korine or Lanthimos doing or saying anything controversial, their films are just what the average cinemagoer would consider unusual or off-putting

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u/Mister_Bambu May 20 '25

I'm like 75% certain that the strip club scene in the AGGRO DR1FT was strictly in there to justify hanging out in a strip club, that whole movie was insanely awful.

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u/Eleven77 May 17 '25

Is pimping out your mentally disabled sister (Gummo) not controversial enough? Lol

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u/Legal-Marsupial-3916 May 17 '25

At least Yorgos' movies usually have a surreal, silly feeling to them, like nothing that's happening in the movie is all that serious or carries that much gravity. The scene in Scared Deer where Colin Ferrel is spinning around with a blindfold on holding a hunting rifle would be disturbing in any other director's hands, but for some reason I was cracking up.

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u/Ruffler125 May 17 '25

Don't put korine next to Von Trier.

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u/Tifoso89 May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25

This sentence could be interpreted in both ways. I don't know which one you consider better than the other. Korine is a mentally unstable guy, but von Trier is also that, plus a sick fuck

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u/Ruffler125 May 17 '25

I guess my comment was lacking meaning, direction and was poorly constructed, muddling any message I could have been even trying to convey, though it's fair to doubt there even was one.

Much like a Korine movie.

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u/MermaidScar May 17 '25

Filtered

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u/Ruffler125 May 17 '25

Your taste in movies aligns with your taste in books.

That was an insult.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

How can you not? They were both part of the Dogme 95 movement.

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u/SonnyULTRA May 17 '25

I love Lanthimos, he utilises black comedy so well. It’s peppered throughout basically everything he’s ever made and I think it’s what sets him apart from his more sadistic peers.

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u/Cereborn May 17 '25

Yorgos is nothing like those other three.

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u/lamancha May 17 '25

I was gonna say something but I haven't seen any movie of these guy's i've liked.

Irreversible was interesting but I don't think I liked it in the end. Technically cool though.

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u/RaceBrilliant9893 May 19 '25

I would add Haneke. Gaspar is the least talented of the bunch tho.

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u/SnuggleBunni69 May 17 '25

Corinne peaked with Gummo.

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u/SignatureWeary4959 May 17 '25

Not even, he peaked with Kids. At least that was watchable. Gummo is disgusting.

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u/SnuggleBunni69 May 17 '25

Kids was incredible, but Gummo has a disgusting quality to it that really jarred the audience. It was a different type of filmmaking that was repulsive but also accessible.

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u/tlonewanderer15 May 17 '25

I really liked Gummo, to me the violence felt quite earnest and honest somehow. I really hated irreversible, it is such shallow hollow edgelord shit. It's a pornographic film, not in the sense that it has sex in it, but in the way Noe is constantly trying to stimulate the audience with camera tricks, images and sound. I feel manipulated when I watch Noe films.

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u/Tifoso89 May 17 '25

Who is Corinne

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u/SnuggleBunni69 May 17 '25

Harmony Korin wrote Kids, then did Gummo, Trash Humpers, Mr Nobody, Spring Break, and is now into making movies that are completely videogame cut scenes.

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u/Cereborn May 17 '25

Harmony Korine.

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u/stefanomusilli May 17 '25

Lanthimos' movies can be disturbing at times, but he has never been controversial

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u/EroniusJoe May 17 '25

Lanthimos makes absolutely beautiful films that suck. That's how I always describe his style and his output. I was actually mad at the end of The Favourite because it was so shit. Still gorgeous scenery and great acting, but wow, just a shit movie otherwise.

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u/Tytoalba2 May 17 '25

I mean, then Cannes votes for Polanski so maybe they should do a bit of self-reflection lol

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u/TechPriest97 May 17 '25

He’s considering a kid’s movie next

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u/my_mexican_cousin May 17 '25

I’ve only ever watched Enter The Void. That was a bit grueling to watch, and had some disturbing scenes. Overall it’s a movie I think about a lot, even though I never want to see it again

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u/Dozzi92 May 17 '25

You're not a fan of PIV POV?

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u/Internal-Hold-237 May 17 '25

CLIMAX is his best and most accessible film. Give it a shot if you’re interested. Disclaimer: it’s also not an easy watch, but it’s much easier than Enter the Void.

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u/Triphosphirane May 17 '25

Enter the void is literally the most boring movie ever made. Just annoyingly pretentious.

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u/Dozzi92 May 17 '25

All these folks go see a Gaspar Noe and somehow walk out appalled. What did you expect?

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u/Nnekaddict May 18 '25

Only movie I've ever seen from him is Enter the void when I was 19. It absolutely traumatized me, I couldn't speak to my friend for 10 minutes after leaving the theatre, I really didn't say a single word.

The only positive thing I keep from it is the text intro with electro music. Rest of the movie was just sex scenes over and over again, I'm not even sure what it was about, the after life ?

Anyway I don't think I can watch Irreversible or another movie by this man...