Climax (2018) (original) (raw)

In the mid 90�s, 20 urban dancers join together for a three-day rehearsal in a closed-down boarding school located at the heart of a forest to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it�s soon impossible for them to resist to their neurosises and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of ...(more)

In the mid 90�s, 20 urban dancers join together for a three-day rehearsal in a closed-down boarding school located at the heart of a forest to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it�s soon impossible for them to resist to their neurosises and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell. (less)

Director: Gaspar No�
Writer: Gaspar No�
Starring: Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, Giselle Palmer
Producers: Brahim Chioua, Richard Grandpierre, Vincent Maraval, Edouard Weil

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Review by Brian Orndorf, February 28, 2019

3 / 10

French director Gaspar Noe broke through to the big time with 2002�s �Irreversible.� It was a horrifying movie, a suffocating immersion into the wilds of human violence and the blind savagery of revenge, but it was an undeniable shock to the system. Noe was a major player in the nihilism movement of French cinema in the early 2000s, and it turns out, he�s not one to reach beyond his grasp. Stumbling through equally charged affairs such as �Love� and �Enter the Void,� Noe returns to Hell with �Climax,� which delivers a similar viewing experience as �Irreversible,� only without the artfulness, t ...read more...

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