Irreversible
35mm at IFC Center
Broke my brain so hard that I stopped reviewing movies for six months.
An experiment in context, how the order in which we see and hear events shapes the connotations they take. Innocuous flirtations turn to acts of aggression. Hope turns to dread. All these preternatural mutations, and yet the only actual work of fiction in this film is time itself. 823
Is this how God sees the world? What a burden that would be.
Note: I need to see more within the New French Extremity. It appears to be the closest any movement has come to continuing what <PERSON> started. I’ve seen <PERSON>, Fat Girl and Caché, but they’re a bit tangential. Will likely watch Martyrs and Trouble Every Day next (hopefully the print of the latter comes back to NYC). 630