Climax (2018)
March 18, 2019 1:25 PM - Subscribe
Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.
Ella Kemp, Sight & Sound: Noé’s breathtaking one-room dance film corrals a troupe of unfortunate wrap-night celebrants then spikes their punch; degeneracy ensues.
Erich Kuersten, Acidemic: The Broken Mirror Dagger in the High of The Beholder.
Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review: The Paris-based Argentine director depends on our interest in taboos and transgressions of so-called good taste. He invites that curiosity with every film, like a giggling schoolboy who has set a whoopie cushion on a chair and can barely contain his laughter as someone approaches to sit. Except, instead of an amusing fart noise, Noé has prepared a debauched and confronting assault for the viewer, and he wants everyone to know it.
Interview with Noé in Dazed.
Trailer.
Ella Kemp, Sight & Sound: Noé’s breathtaking one-room dance film corrals a troupe of unfortunate wrap-night celebrants then spikes their punch; degeneracy ensues.
Erich Kuersten, Acidemic: The Broken Mirror Dagger in the High of The Beholder.
Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review: The Paris-based Argentine director depends on our interest in taboos and transgressions of so-called good taste. He invites that curiosity with every film, like a giggling schoolboy who has set a whoopie cushion on a chair and can barely contain his laughter as someone approaches to sit. Except, instead of an amusing fart noise, Noé has prepared a debauched and confronting assault for the viewer, and he wants everyone to know it.
Interview with Noé in Dazed.
Trailer.
sammyo, it might not be a horror movie to the extent that Noé's Irreversible was, but it's certainly horrible; extremely intense and crazy, uncomfortable. pure movement building towards a violent, well, climax.
posted by sapagan at 12:08 AM on March 22, 2019
posted by sapagan at 12:08 AM on March 22, 2019
Sounds like the first 20 minutes would be enough for you and me both, sammyo. I've seen enough of Noe's descents into brutality to stop there, but the smart review at Deep Focus linked above suggests those opening dance scenes are *really* gorgeously shot and performed.
posted by mediareport at 6:28 AM on March 22, 2019
posted by mediareport at 6:28 AM on March 22, 2019
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(take lots of orange juice along)
(never done acid so don't now how it would be to dance high like that, probably it'd *feel* like the wild scenes in the trailer but watching the videos later the next day it'd probably be more shuffling and swaying so some imperceptible rhythm)
(oj is a advice from elder acidheads from long ago)
(meet up?)
posted by sammyo at 5:46 PM on March 19, 2019