Double Feature
Irreversible (New 35mm Print)
One night. An unforgivable act. A tale told in reverse. Acclaimed filmmaker Gaspar Noé’s unflinching exploration of human savagery and the uncompromising nature of time, Irreversible was met with a groundswell of acclaim and uproar upon its premiere at Cannes in 2002. Stylish, sexually frank, and brutal, the film’s conceit of exploring the events of one terrible night on the streets of Paris in reverse chronological order was celebrated and derided in equal measure, helping to further cement Noé’s legacy as a cinematic enfant terrible. Not for the faint of heart, easily offended, or anyone with photosensitivity, this is Noé’s dark masterpiece. (Altered Innocence)
- Director
- Gaspar Noé
- Writer
- Gaspar Noé
- Starring
- Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel
- Year
- 2002
- Country
- France
- Format
- English subtitled 35mm
- Running Time
- 94 minutes
La haine
Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts. Aimlessly passing their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz (Vincent Cassel), Hubert (Hubert Koundé), and Saïd (Saïd Taghmaoui)—a Jew, an African, and an Arab—give human faces to France’s immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. A work of tough beauty, La haine is a landmark of contemporary French cinema and a gripping reflection of its country’s ongoing identity crisis. (Janus Films)
- Director
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Writer
- Mathieu Kassovitz
- Starring
- Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé, Saïd Taghmaoui
- Year
- 1995
- Country
- France
- Format
- English subtitled 35mm
- Running Time
- 97 minutes