Release dates
May 28, 2019
73 months agoDVD / VOD / Blu-ray
Released
Climax release date
The movie Climax is already released on Cinema, DVD, VOD and Blu-ray in the USA.
What the critics say
Based on 16 reviews, Climax gets an average review score of 77
The latest from French enfant terrible Gaspar Noe revolves around a dance party that descends into hellishness.
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Given the mix of classes, ethnicities and sexualities amongst the characters, as well as the giant French flag that hangs at the back of the school’s main hall, those so inclined could certainly read a social critique into it all – think Salò meets Nocturama – but it’s likely more rewarding to leave such deliberations aside and simply take the film for what it is: a gloriously stupid, aesthetically enrapturing indulgence.
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If the Step Up series took a drug trip to hell, it’d look a lot like the superb lunacy of Climax
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Music, Memory, and Madness at Cannes, Part One: Gaspar Noé and the Death of Community
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The camera captures every freak-out, recrimination, stolen kiss, and betrayal in what is a miracle of synchronicity.
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Gaspar Noé lives up to his name with an orgy of sex and self-mutilation
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Provocative French director’s dance-dance-devolution epic is one brilliant bad-trip experience
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The madness escalates in such a way that comparisons to the final third of Darren Aronofsky‘s “mother!” are inevitable, but that film had thematic ambitions to match its filmmaking chops, and the same cannot be claimed for Noé.
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After a successful rehearsal, a recently established dance troupe celebrate their upcoming tour of France and the US. But someone has spiked the punch with a powerful hallucinogen, and the night turns into a violently bad trip.
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The new film from the Irrevérsible director is a woozy, day-glo horror story of a dance troupe who drink alcohol spiked with LSD
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Watching all of those clips drove home how dance cinematography like this is mostly — and sadly — a lost art.
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'Climax' is the nuttiest drug-fueled dance party you'll ever attend
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Even though the techniques are immersive — plunging you into a disorienting reality that mirrors the drug-fueled frenzy you are witnessing — the effect is also curiously distancing.
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Gaspar Noé's latest plunge into hell starts off as a depraved youth dance musical, and it's an arresting one. Then it all goes — yes — straight to hell.
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Gaspar Noé dance freak-out Climax tries too hard to be shocking
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In transgressive cinema, there is only one real sin, and that is to be boring. That happens somewhere around the six-hour mark of Gaspar Noé's 96-minute drug freakout fable Climax.
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