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Climax

2018

Gaspar Noé

Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile ...

6.6

10,032

Thriller. Drama 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 with LSD 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A film that’s seductive in its rhythms and bold visualization of his young dancers’ sometimes beautiful, other times brutal somatic expressiveness."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] is possibly Noé's best movie (...) [A] remarkable psychedelic ride (...) 'Climax' benefits from a clarity of purpose"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"For about 45 minutes, it’s a compelling movie (...) 'Climax' works, at least when it’s willing to be a human drama. But then it sinks"	NEU
United States	Emily Yoshida Vulture	"A surprisingly exhilarating, physical, and breezily humorous opening act (...) 'Climax' is the best Noé has been in ages, and perhaps the most humane film he’s ever done."	POS
United States	Ben Croll The Wrap	"Is it a movie, or an LSD trip? (...) As in 'Suspiria', the violent color palette matches the sudden swings in mood (...) This tale of stylized hysteria is an absolute scream."	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Village Voice	"'Climax' isn't so much about the inevitability of chaos, but about the sadness of watching something beautiful fall apart. And it is never less than electrifying."	POS
United States	Gregory Ellwood Collider	"It’s so essentially captivating that despite its horrors you want to take a quick bathroom break, get back in your seat and watch it all over again. And maybe once more after that too."	POS
United States	Joe Lipsett Bloody Disgusting	"[It] remains imminently watchable as both a visually impressive exercise and an artistic statement about society through the lens of dance and death (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"More brilliantly deranged, in its microscopic vision of society in collapse, than anything the director has ever inflicted on us."	POS
United States	Brian Tallerico rogerebert.com	"A piece of filmmaking that seeks to replicate the non-stop energy of its subjects through its visual language. The music bumps too."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Visually extraordinary, structurally and formally audacious (...) Noé is giving us a cinema of sensual outrageousness and excess that makes other films look middleaged and tame (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"A blazingly original, extremely disturbing film (...) An extraordinarily intense experience"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"There is nothing as gruelling here as there was in 'Irreversible', nor anything as explicit as 'Love', though the film hardly disappoints on either front (...) It’s nice to have him back (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Barry Hertz The Globe and Mail	"The results are not nearly as originally dreaded, because no matter how far Noé's films can go off the rails they are always at the very least interesting to consume (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS

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