Climax

2.00
    Climax
    2018

    Synopsis

    When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.

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    Cast

    • Sofia BoutellaSelva
    • Romain GuillermicDavid
    • Souheila YacoubLou
    • Kiddy SmileDaddy
    • Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-MaullEmmanuelle
    • Giselle PalmerGazelle
    • Taylor KastleTaylor
    • Thea Carla SchøttPsyche
    • Sharleen TempleIvana
    • Lea VlamosEva

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Film Stage

      It’s all insane and intoxicating, and what’s perhaps most remarkable is that, ultimately, the ugliness and excess is legitimized by being in the service of an elaborate and ecstatically realized celebration of dancing as an art form.
    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Pairing his usual boundary-pushing sex-and-drugs fixation with a vital presentation of wildly exuberant dance and movement, Gaspar Noe has made a film that’s seductive in its rhythms and bold visualization of his young dancers’ sometimes beautiful, other times brutal somatic expressiveness.
    • 91

      IndieWire

      Gaspar Noé’s remarkable psychedelic ride is his most focused achievement, a concise package of sizzling dance sequences and jolting developments that play like a slick mashup of the “Step Up” franchise and “Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom,” not to mention the disorienting cinematic trickery of Noé’s own provocative credits.
    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      I was shocked to discover that I was actually … touched. Climax is a small miracle, and if this is Noé going soft (for him, of course), that might actually be a very good thing for the movies.
    • 80

      CineVue

      The film is freaky, experimental, sometimes hilarious and unnervingly intense.
    • 80

      The Guardian

      It is as if Noé has somehow mulched up the quintessence of dance, coke and porn together and squooshed it into his camera. If that sounds horrible, then yes it is, but also, often, demonically inspired.
    • 80

      Screen Daily

      You may emerge from Climax, as from a full-on club night, feeling shattered and asking yourself what was the point of it all. But there’s no denying the mastery of Noé and his team, and the extravagant talent of his cast.
    • 80

      The Telegraph

      Noé has created a churning, repellent, wildly sexy tanztheaterwerk of pure Boschian decadence and derangement. It’s nice to have him back.

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