Comments on: Movie: Climax

Post: Movie: Climax

sapagan — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 13:25:43 -0800

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.

By: sammyo

sammyo — Tue, 19 Mar 2019 17:46:29 -0800

omg, please tellme this is NOT a horror film, crazy dance is great, debauchery in dance could be squirmy or well yeah sure yum, intense -- yes yes yes, hurts, pain is just part of stretching pushing a bit too far but dance is life, a room filled with dancers on acid just going for it, wanna be there!

(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?)

By: sapagan

sapagan — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:08:01 -0800

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.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 06:28:21 -0800

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.