
Variety
"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.
Full reviewSofia 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)
Less"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.
Full reviewPlays something like Pasolini's stomach-churning Salò by way of the old Busby Berkeley extravaganza Gold Diggers of 1933.
Full reviewNoé is giving us a cinema of sensual outrageousness and excess that makes other films look middleaged and tame.
Full reviewA blazingly original, extremely disturbing film that's something quite new - a psychotropic street dance movie that turns into an orgiastic horror trip.
Full reviewNoe has made a film that's seductive in its rhythms and bold visualisation of his young dancers' sometimes beautiful, other times brutal somatic expressiveness.
Full reviewClimax is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Academy On Demand and AroVision.
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