Monica Bellucci in Irreversible (2002)

The shattering consequences of violence are explored in writer/director Gaspar Noe’s graphic and profoundly powerful drama, made up of 12 one-shot sequences in reverse chronological order. After Parisian beauty Monica Bellucci is beaten and sexually assaulted, her boyfriend and ex-husband unite to find–and exact a brutal revenge against–the attacker. With Vincent Cassel, Albert Dupontel, Philippe Nahon. 90 min.