Climax

“It’s all insane and intoxicating, and what’s perhaps most remarkable is that, ultimately, the ugliness and excess is legitimized by being in the service of an elaborate and ecstatically realized celebration of dancing as an art form.”

Giovanni Marchini Camia, The Film Stage · 100

“Pairing his usual boundary-pushing sex-and-drugs fixation with a vital presentation of wildly exuberant dance and movement, Gaspar Noe has made a film that’s seductive in its rhythms and bold visualization of his young dancers’ sometimes beautiful, other times brutal somatic expressiveness.”

Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter · 100

“Climax isn’t so much about the inevitability of chaos, but about the sadness of watching something beautiful fall apart. And it is never less than electrifying.”

Bilge Ebiri, Village Voice · 100

“It’s full of epic bombast, (he even claims that it is based on a true story) jolting you out of complacency with shock, colour and music.”

Katie Driscoll, CineVue · 100

“Gaspar Noé’s remarkable psychedelic ride is his most focused achievement, a concise package of sizzling dance sequences and jolting developments that play like a slick mashup of the “Step Up” franchise and “Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom,” not to mention the disorienting cinematic trickery of Noé’s own provocative credits.”

Eric Kohn, IndieWire · 91