Climax
Sofia Boutella stars in Gaspar Noé’s (Irreversible) street-dance-horror-hybrid, which won the Directors Fortnight Prize at Cannes.
"Climax is reportedly based on the true story of a 1990s dance group whose post-rehearsal party descended into hell, helped by liberal serves of LSD-laced alcohol (it also features an astonishing choreographed sequence set to ’90s electro dance music)." (Sydney Film Festival)
- Director:
- Gaspar Noé ('Enter the Void', 'I Stand Alone', 'Love')
- Writer:
- Gaspar Noé
- Cast:
- Sofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicAlaia AlsafirMamadou BathilyAshley BiscetteLakdhar DridiTaylor KastleClaude Gajan Maude
Reviews & comments
Variety
press"Climax" works, at least when it's willing to be a human drama. But then it sinks in that you're watching "Fame" directed by the Marquis de Sade with a Steadicam.
The Telegraph
pressPlays something like Pasolini's stomach-churning Salò by way of the old Busby Berkeley extravaganza Gold Diggers of 1933.
The Guardian
pressNoé is giving us a cinema of sensual outrageousness and excess that makes other films look middleaged and tame.
Screen Daily
pressA blazingly original, extremely disturbing film that's something quite new - a psychotropic street dance movie that turns into an orgiastic horror trip.
Hollywood Reporter
pressNoe has made a film that's seductive in its rhythms and bold visualisation of his young dancers' sometimes beautiful, other times brutal somatic expressiveness.
Climax is a horror movie - but calling it that is reductive and misleading because it is quite unlike any horror movie you've seen before. For a start, it's also a bangin' hot dance flick, packed with head-nodding beats and breath-taking moves. Yes, you read that right. Moreover, there are no ghosts, monsters, or marauding slashers here. No, the horror of...
Variety
press"Climax" works, at least when it's willing to be a human drama. But then it sinks in that you're watching "Fame" directed by the Marquis de Sade with a Steadicam.
The Telegraph
pressPlays something like Pasolini's stomach-churning Salò by way of the old Busby Berkeley extravaganza Gold Diggers of 1933.
The Guardian
pressNoé is giving us a cinema of sensual outrageousness and excess that makes other films look middleaged and tame.
Screen Daily
pressA blazingly original, extremely disturbing film that's something quite new - a psychotropic street dance movie that turns into an orgiastic horror trip.
Hollywood Reporter
pressNoe has made a film that's seductive in its rhythms and bold visualisation of his young dancers' sometimes beautiful, other times brutal somatic expressiveness.
Climax is a horror movie - but calling it that is reductive and misleading because it is quite unlike any horror movie you've seen before. For a start, it's also a bangin' hot dance flick, packed with head-nodding beats and breath-taking moves. Yes, you read that right. Moreover, there are no ghosts, monsters, or marauding slashers here. No, the horror of...
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