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sp1ti says...
6 years ago
You have to admire Noé for the way he just fucks with conventions as he pleases and stages lengthy camera rides just for the fun of it. The film sets up a huge cast of dancers pulling off some crazy vogue shit and lets them slowly but surely decend into a feverish hell. I was not without doubts while watching this( and he does let his bad boy hang out) but I ended up just enjoy the hypnotic ride. It's definitly nothing substantial but a big step up from "LOVE".
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nanachosp says...
5 years ago
An LSD-fulled nightmare of dances, violence, delusions, betrayal and desire by the one and only Gaspar Noé. The dance sequences are quite stunning to watch while the descent into chaos and madness makes the movie a bold, striking and nightmarish trip into hell that you cannot unsee.
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Saint Pauly says...
6 years ago
It's called _Climax_ because it's a mind fuck, but I'm not sure you'll be glad you came.

It begins with the end scene and closing credits of a fake thriller as a sign to the audience that the traditional movie is over and we're about to go beyond the boundaries of normal film structure.

After a couple of dance sequences and party small talk centered on sex, drugs and a lot more sex (with passing references to children/parenting), the end credits appear in the middle of the film. Following them is the 2nd experience of the two-fer, where things get very dark very quickly.

The 'Dancing with the Scars' half is like a drug trip I couldn't get on board with so there was no way for me to get off -- I ended up just staring at the ceiling and wondering if it was going to be finished soon.
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jdshkolnik says...
5 years ago
This was a total waste of time. A pretentious descent into nothing a viewer might care about. Requiem for a Director’s Career
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colorthekid says...
5 years ago
Love it or hate it, this film is technically astonishing and whatever it's trying to do, it's doing it very well. It's almost like they've trapped the true essence of French Extremism, set it on fire, and followed it with a steady cam.

The camera work in this is surreal and its movements, along with the actors' choreography, are surprisingly well coordinated for a "write-as-we-go" film.

Climax will make you feel a lot of things and I don't think you're going to like how most of those things feel, but that's exactly what makes Climax a very well executed horrifying experience.
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smallclone says...
5 years ago
Visceral, chaotic, disturbing, nauseous, terrifying, colourful, outrageous, brilliant. Noe seems to shock and delight and equal measure. There are very long drawn out takes, amazingly choreographed dance scenes, hellish and horrifying images, a pulsating soundtrack but it all gets cooked into to a completely immersive piece of masterful cinema.

The narrative is not straightforward, and seems to focus on a comment on modern French society / diaspora but also shows a take on the paradise > purgatory > hell tale that mainly revolves around sex. In that respect it's definitely for the audience to make up there own mind what Noe wants to tell us. There are alot of things placed backwards in this film. Maybe Noe is trying to tell us we're not living our lives correctly.

It's a must see for any fan of Noe or art house. What an experience.
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rafaelpires815 says...
3 years ago
The first 45 minutes are absolute garbage, then things started happening but I was already bored, so the whole experience was awful. I think this would work better as a short movie, 30 minutes max.
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geondp says...
4 years ago
There are some AMAZING shots in it for sure. The over head dance sequences are nothing shout of stellar!
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brujeria says...
4 years ago
in brief words
_a delightful nightmare_
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Buck Flower Sings says...
4 years ago
The high they feel definitely doesnt translate to the viewer. I'm familiar with Noe's films, but this was less of a film and more of just an along for the hellish ride as some cope terribly with the drug while others were preparing for it. Sure it goes twisted and dark, but I've got no connection to any character or care what happens to any of them either. They're all just kind of equally awful people. Meh. One and done.
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wrongcrouch says...
4 years ago
France keeps trashing the world.
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Bradym03 says...
2 years ago
It took me four years to get around to this and now that I have, one of the most nightmarish LSD trips to ever curse the screen. I mean, FUCKING HELL!

The best way to describe and recommend it is from Gaspar Noé himself when he said, "the first part of Climax is like a roller coaster, the second like a ghost train."
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bittenwool-deleted-1611672511 says...
4 years ago
Chaotic, depressing, gross. **_Climax_** figures between the worst experiences I've had in life and my top 10 favorite movies.
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nickyd says...
2 years ago
Had to turn it off halfway through and it was a struggle to even get that far. Empty violence with no purpose. I can appreciate violent movies that have something to say, but this director loves reveling in things for the hell of it and it makes me nauseous. Technically masterful and extremely well-acted, no doubt, but listening to endless minutes of men talking about anally-raping women with no lube, children dying, pregnant women being beaten into miscarriage, incestual rape, all because of LSD (a drug that rarely if ever makes people violent)? No thanks.

For me, you can compare it to a movie like Raw or Mother! to see how you can do something shocking that has a point. Something that's not just capitalizing on horrible things that actually happen to people to shock and traumatize the audience. I literally saw someone complain that this movie was too tame, that there should have been a scene of child rape to really be true to the director's style...this is the kind of message the director sends with his work.
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Reply by The_Argentinian
12 months ago
@nickyd *pearl clutching*<br /> <br /> a b c
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