Gaspar Noé’s ‘Irréversible: Straight Cut’ In Theaters, Distributor “Extremely Aware This Is An Extremely Tough Film” – Specialty Preview
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theatrical debut of Gaspar Noé’s controversial Irréversible: Straight Cut. The last is presented by Altered Innocence, whose owner Frank Jaffe spoke with Deadline about why he wanted to give Noe’s unusual 2019 director’s cut — of the Argentinian/French director’s disturbing 2002 film Irreversible — a release Stateside. “It’s a film that needs to be seen.
Or made available,” he said. StudioCanal approached him twice. “They said, ‘No one is brave enough to take on this film. Will you?’” And “there is an audience for it…Tickets are selling.” Jaffe said he first watched Irreversible, or tried to, via Netflix mail order DVD when he was 14. “My dad made me turn it off halfway through.” It had a big impact on him.
He’s an admirer of Noe’s work. “I am extremely sensitive to the fact that it’s an extremely tough film,” he said. It stars Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel and Albert Dupontel over the course of a violent and tragic night in Paris as two men attempt to avenge the brutal rape and beating of the woman they love.
