Climax (2018)
In a story that looks even more frightening and exciting. It tells of an amazing story about French dancers in an empty school building where they gather every day for their training on a winter night. That nighttime celebration may turn into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn from Sangria mixed with LSD, and it may seem catastrophic at those critical moments of their lives.
6 April 1982, Bab El Oued, Algeria
December 10, 2018
Consumed by the urge to shock, he lays on so much gratuitous nonsense in his lead-up to the hyperkinetic climax that the actors themselves seem unconvinced by what they're called upon to do and the whole thing collapses into absurdity and tedium.May 14, 2018
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.May 14, 2018
Even with its morbid finale, Climax implies that the dangerous party's never really over, and the dance never really ends.December 09, 2018
It's often an overwhelming experience, but it is one that is never exhausting.January 17, 2019
Climax is an orgy of youthful enthusiasm, beautifully humanistic repugnance, compellingly animalistic repulsion, dazzlingly choreographed exhilaration and assuredly controlled grace; all soaked in hallucinogen-spiked sangria.September 05, 2018
Typically, the results are not nearly as originally dreaded, because no matter how far Noé's films can go off the rails -- some of us are still not over the final few minutes of Enter the Void -- they are always at the very least interesting to consume.May 14, 2018
More brilliantly deranged, in its microscopic vision of society in collapse, than anything the director has ever inflicted on us.January 04, 2019
Like his dancers, Noe has locked the viewer in, and there is no way out.December 07, 2018
For those willing to risk a close encounter with this maverick, there are undoubtedly rewards to be found in Climax.May 14, 2018
Noe has made a film that's seductive in its rhythms and bold visualization of his young dancers' sometimes beautiful, other times brutal somatic expressiveness.December 07, 2018
Climax is a self-indulgent exercise in misery, and an impersonal one because it is so heavily governed by its filmic techniques. The Emperor has no clothes while tripping on LSD.May 14, 2018
"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.