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22 October 2002 | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

After two months of deliberations, the British Board of Film Classification, the U.K. censor board, has allowed the release of French director Gasper Noe's film Irreversible, which contains numerous scenes of graphic violence including a nine-minute rape scene. Britain's Guardian newspaper said that the film board at one point brought in a clinical forensic psychiatrist to see the film and offer his opinion. In a statement on Monday, the BBFC commented: "The board recognized that elements in the film may be shocking and for many viewers unpleasant. These, however, are not by themselves reasons for censoring them for adults. Our concern, and the public's, is principally with content which is likely to promote harmful activity." The film's distributors, Metro Tartan, expressed anger at the board's two-month delay in acting and its warning that it may take a harsher look at the film when it is released for home video. A spokesman told the Guardian: "The film has been passed uncut throughout the whole of Europe both for cinema and video release. We are very disturbed that the BBFC has intimated that it will look at the film in a different context for video."

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