![]() Sound editing is hyperbolic in the extreme. Like the Buenos Aires-born director's arresting debut feature, Seul Contre Tous (1998), it is shot in 16mm and blown up to 35mm. Like Martin Amis's Time's Arrow (a book which Noé admits to owning but not to having read), it begins at the end and works forward. ![]() ![]() Irréversible, which will receive its British premiere at the Edinburgh festival, comes billed as "a violent trip - from hell to paradise". None the less, this seemingly placid 38-year-old has now made a movie so extreme that it provoked mass walk-outs and prolonged catcalls - as well as wild applause - during its press screening in Cannes. Discussing a favourite book, JW Dunne's An Experiment with Time - a 1927 study by an English aeronautical engineer who developed his own pet theories about dreams, perception and reality - he sounds like an earnest young philosophy student. During the rape scene, I had to walk out," he confides in his softly-spoken voice. When he was a teenager, he was too squeamish to sit through Sam Peckinpah's Staw Dogs: "I thought it was too heavy to handle. Gaspar Noé likes to describe himself as "a straight kind of guy and a bit of a wimp".
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