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.
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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)
Less2018Rating: R18, Violence, sexual content, self-harm, drug use & offensive language95 minsFranceFrench and English with English subtitles
HorrorMusicalWorld CinemaFestival & Independent
- Director:
- Gaspar Noé ('Enter the Void', 'I Stand Alone', 'Love')
- Writer:
- Gaspar Noé
- Cast:
- Sofia BoutellaRomain GuillermicAlaia AlsafirMamadou BathilyAshley BiscetteLakdhar DridiTaylor KastleClaude Gajan Maude
Climax | Reviews
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The Telegraph
Plays something like Pasolini's stomach-churning Salò by way of the old Busby Berkeley extravaganza Gold Diggers of 1933.
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The Guardian
Noé is giving us a cinema of sensual outrageousness and excess that makes other films look middleaged and tame.
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Screen Daily
A blazingly original, extremely disturbing film that's something quite new - a psychotropic street dance movie that turns into an orgiastic horror trip.
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Hollywood Reporter
Noe has made a film that's seductive in its rhythms and bold visualisation of his young dancers' sometimes beautiful, other times brutal somatic expressiveness.
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Climax | Release Details
Climax is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Academy On Demand and AroVision.