Irreversible and 9 Songs available on Blu

 Irreversible and 9 Songs available on Blu-­‐ray June 18 Irreversible trailer 9 Songs trailer Friday, June 13, 2014 – Accent Film is pleased to announce the release of Irreversible and 9 Songs for the first time on Blu-­‐ray. Both films from acclaimed visionary directors Gaspar Noe and Michael Winterbottom will be out June 18. Representing perhaps two of the most contentious cinematic experiences of the new millennium, Irreversible and 9 Songs, each takes a confrontational look at the construction and deconstruction of relationships. Noe’s is the recital of a nightmare; Winterbottom’s a summer love affair up close and personal. Both these operatic provocations which showcase heightened sound, music and cinematography are suited to the high definition digital restoration of Blu-­‐ray. Irreversible is a romance remembered at point omega. A nightmare where the smoke never clears, the dust never settles. Exploding onto screens in 2002, Noe’s part pulverising and part extremist vision works as a total assault on the senses. Recognised as a pioneering and relentless modern interpretation of a journey from heaven to hell, delivered, however, as a sustained reversal deserving of a filmmaker who carries the reputation as “the poet of apocalyptic shock” Irreversible features two of the most unforgettable sequences of modern cinema. “Noe’s brusing film is too artfully crafted to write off as exploitation,” noted Peter Travers in Rolling Stone. “To see it is to absorb it, even against your will.” 9 Songs is altogether a different beast. Across a glacial vista of Antarctic wilderness a man remembers a lost summer. In London he meets her at the Brixton Academy. Soon he – a British scientist – and her – an American student – commence a torrid love affair built upon the precipice of that unholy trinity of sex, drugs and rock n roll. Michael Winterbottom, the acclaimed filmmaker behind 24 Hour Party People and The Trip, hereby delivers the audacious 9 Songs, framing its heightened real sex scenes through a relationship formed at the height of the Britpop movement and those key musical acts that define and consecrate the short-­‐lived moment and everlasting memory for the lovers. “The fun and pleasure of sex are relatively easy to put on film,” observed Stephanie Zacharek for Salon. “But subtler shades of feeling and doubt which sometimes change almost from night to night in the early stages of a relationship, are harder to capture and that’s what Winterbottom gets.” 9 Songs features performances from the Super Furry Animals, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Elbow, the Von Bondies, Primal Scream, Dandy Warhols, Franz Ferdinand and Michael Nyman. Copies will be made available for review. Also available: Contact: [email protected]/0405 408911 About Accent Film: Accent Film has defined itself as an independent label at the forefront of movements in international and local cinema. The Accent catalogue contains works by great auteurs, independent innovators, film history icons and iconoclasts. From Fritz Lang, Gaspar Noe, Michael Winterbottom, Todd Haynes, Wong Kar-­‐wai, Francois Ozon, Abel Ferrara and Jacques Rivette to Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher Trilogy and more recent cutting edge independents such as The Cake Eaters, Old Joy, Red, White & Blue, When We Leave and Womb, Accent delivers diverse, original and challenging films and documentaries for all tastes both eclectic, exceptional and widespread.