Irréversible, directed by Gaspar Noé, 2002 What's there to say about Noé's thumb in the eye of modern cinema than hasn't been said before? Even more than the graphic violence and prolonged rape scene, Irréversible is disturbing by virtue of its very construction. Noé's use of rumbling music, long takes, and a camera that manically jitters and swoops through each scene left me disoriented, to say the least.