5.4
“Birth and death are extraordinary experiences. Life is a fleeting pleasure.”
Climax (2018)
September 19, 20181h 37mFR
7.0
2.3K votes
Overview
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.
Director
Gaspar NoéWriter
Where to Watch
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$2.9M
Revenue
$1.7M
Production Companies
Rectangle ProductionsWild BunchLes Cinémas de la ZoneEskwadKNMARTE France Cinéma
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furious_iz
8.0A french dance troupe, staying for a long weekend in some sort of school building, decide to party after rehearsal, while a wintry blizzard rages outside. Someone spikes the punch, and all hell breaks loose. The dance scenes are engaging, the visuals hypnotic, the performances are somehow real and completely over the top, and the chaos and carnage intense and memorable. Long, drawn out tracking shots, one of which lasts for 40+ minutes, follow the dancers as the drugs take hold and any hint of humanity falls by the wayside. Awful, intense, nightmarish film that I would never recommend t…
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Stephen Campbell
9.0**_A disgusting, morally reprehensible work of insane genius_** >_LSD or mainly alcohol can bring you back to a more reptilian way of thinking, you are not human anymore. It is all about survival, about reproducing the species, about sex and domination. The moment we start losing control of the logical brain we go to a psychotic way of thinking._ - Gaspar Noé; "Gaspar Noé on why his orgiastic Cannes sensation Climax should be shown to kids: 'It's very educational'" (Kaleem Aftab); _The Telegraph_ (May 15, 2018) _Climax_, the latest film from Argentinian-French provocateur Gaspar Noé,…
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