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Climax
Gaspar Noé's visually dazzling feast of music and mayhem reveals a director at the height of his provocative filmmaking powers.
Director: Gaspar Noé
Overview
Following a successful rehearsal, a dance troupe sets about celebrating with a party. But when it becomes apparent that someone has spiked the sangria, the joyous atmosphere soon descends into a nightmarish hellscape of violence and twisted carnality as the dancers begin to turn on each other in a delirious orgiastic frenzy.
Gaspar Noé - director of the hugely controversial Irreversible, Enter the Void, and Love - is working at the peak of his powers with Climax, a visually dazzling feast of music, movement, and mayhem. Inspired equally by the worlds of modern dance and esoteric arthouse-horror (chief among them, Dario Argento’s Suspiria and Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession), Climax pulses towards its astonishing conclusion with a thumping score by the likes of Daft Punk, Aphex Twin and Gary Numan. The result is a hypnotic experience from a filmmaker operating on an extraordinary visceral and sensory level.
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