The hard hitting and unrelenting nature of Noes approach to storytelling may be difficult for some viewers, with its portrayal of the darkness of real life horror, but this raw confronting piece is a must see film.

Gaspar Noe's controversial classic gets a well deserved cinematic revisit this year, as part of the Hello Darkness program. The hard hitting and unrelenting nature of Noes approach to storytelling may be difficult for some viewers, with its portrayal of the darkness of real life horror, but this raw confronting piece is a must see film. The incredibly intense and fast paced story is told in reverse, so the audience is kept in the dark as to character motive and meaning until late in the piece. Challenging the viewer to judge purely on what they see before them, with very little context or history, Noe initially appears unforgiving. As the true horrific nature of the story unfolds, it is as if only upon consumption of the whole is the director allowing us to really comprehend its many parts. Outstanding cinema.