From party to nightmare, a hypnotic cinematic experience.
French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with LSD.
With its incredible choreography and sequence shots, Climax is a hymn to life shot like a horror documentary.
“Climax is a celebration of living in the moment, or at least a tribute to visceral intensity of trying to survive each new one, and Noé includes his own creation intentions in that ethos."
Eric Kohn Indie Wire 13/05/2018
Art Cinema Award, Directors' Fortnight 2018, 2018, fr
Toronto - TIFF 2018, 2018, ca
Busan IFF 2018, 2018, af
Stockholm IFF 2018, 2018, af
Gaspar Noé
Gaspar Noé (1963, Argentina) is a director, producer, editor and screenwriter. He studied philosophy and film at the Ecole Louis Lumière in Paris. The visionary, inventive and provocative filmmaker directed number of short films, documentaries and six features, all presented at the Cannes Film Festival; I stand alone (1998), Irreversible (2002), Enter the Void (2009), Love (2015), Climax (2018) and Vortex (2021).