Retrospective

Climax

Gaspar Noé
2018 97 min France
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Synopsis

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.

Cast/Avec

  • Sofia Boutella
  • Romain Guillermic
  • Souheila Yacoub

Screenplay

  • Gaspar Noé

Cinematographer

  • Benoît Debie
  • Gaspar Noé

Sound

  • Jean-Luc Audy

Production

  • Rectangle Productions
  • Wild Bunch

Screenings

Tuesday 05 March 2024 14:00
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : French
Subtitles : Dutch
Screening : Public Screening

Critics

“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

Gaspar Noé

Gaspar Noé
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).

Filmography

  • Pulpe amère (short) 1987
  • Une expérience d'hypnose télévisuelle (short) 1995
  • Carne (mid-length) 1991
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