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Climax

Climax

2018
Drama
Horror
1h 37m
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Avg Percentile 56.42% from 1616 total ratings

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Rated 25 Jun 2019
81
84th
Only too late did I realise I was stuck in this location with these flawed characters and there would be no escape as things slowly started to turn into something very uncomfortable that glued me to my screen, anxious and unnerved as hell. That feeling of being in a nightmare you can't wake up from. I can easily imagine someone hating this, but I was darkly fascinated throughout. My buns must've had a good workout from all the clenching, goddamn.
Rated 11 Nov 2018
25
1st
Climax achieves in 95 minutes what took Enter the Void over 2,5 hours: make a movie that feels like it's over 2,5 hours long. Some of the choices made by Noé are very strange. For example, the music could've been much louder, shittier and more repetitive. The camera didn't do nearly enough flips. The amount of tracking shots is also very disappointing. Moreover, why is only half of this movie's runtime filled with people screaming in agony? Really seems like Noé is getting soft on us.
Rated 04 Aug 2018
78
89th
There will always be those for whom Noé is merely a provocateur and purveyor of shallow ideas. To me, he seems to be asking himself how the cinematic art could fulfil some kind of moral responsibility. Here, this involves an attempt to push further into the notion of cinema-going as a psycho-physical experience, in order to awaken a sense of how a profound underlying collective discontent can be expressed in the desire for transformational psycho-physical experiences such as heavy drug-taking.
Rated 19 Mar 2019
30
26th
Dude sure loves seeing pregnant women get kicked in the stomach, I'll give him that.
Rated 10 Sep 2018
85
84th
Gone is the hovering detachment of his last two films, Noé is direct and more threatening than ever -- Not letting the viewer leave his demonic playground for a second. Time feels eternal in "Climax" and Noé takes full advantage of this. Curiously following the demonic choreography of his subjects; watching them mindlessly descend into the depths of their primal fears and desires. Unrivalled work of horror.
Rated 10 Sep 2018
86
94th
Watch this on a big screen. Watch this as loud as possible. Just fucking watch this. Noé has directed music videos before and I am so happy he has found a novel, hilarious, frightening, unsettling, and deeply memorable way of translating that craft into an existential-musical-horror-mystery.
Rated 11 Dec 2018
9
92nd
Got put in cinema 1 with roughly 7 other people and everyone just looked at each other after the lights got put back on. A ghastly and hectic traumatic visual audio show that constantly had me of edge. I love movies that still are on my mind days later and this is no different.
Rated 09 Oct 2018
41
34th
Too crowded for a chaotic film. I couldn't care less for half of the characters. I was ready to be disturbed and came with this expectation. Butt he film is not really disturbing... It's actually annoying and sometimes just boring. The loud music all the time, meaningless upsidedown camera, weirdly dark scenes... This film had so much potential but it got Gaspar Noe'd.
Rated 07 Nov 2018
28
7th
There's no denying that it's technically impressive, but it's also proudly and defiantly void of anything to say. 90 minutes of amateur actors crawling around on the floor begging for it to end make this film a rare experience: a perfect metaphor for watching this film.
Rated 04 Mar 2019
70
30th
Noe is just not my jam. It's easy to admire his uncompromised style and obvious talent, but his work strikes me as empty, amoral provocations. This audio-visual assault of a movie is too well directed not to make an impact, but it feels like it subsists purely on edginess; Noe's biggest crutch. The movie yells and yells, begging for your attention. After having listened, I'm not sure it had anything to say. Is it memorable? Absolutely. But so is having your skin burnt to crisp.
Rated 19 Nov 2019
90
91st
It's like the underpass from Irreversible + the underpass from Possession + the underpass where all the cool DJs hang out.
Rated 20 Feb 2019
100
90th
This is actually my first trip into Noé territory. I didn't like the opening interview segments, but other than that I really enjoyed this wild ride of sights, sounds and insanity. I'm not sure what (if any) true substance there is - but as ever I don't necessarily care. It made me simultaneously uncomfortable and mesmerized in a way I like and can't explain which makes me like it even more. It's when a film goes so far off the rails I forget where the rails are. It's an experience.
Rated 16 Mar 2019
88
84th
As small scale as a Gaspar Noe film can get. Here, he’s not focusing on a transcendent hell, but an inner one. A hell of psychedelic sensation, unwillingly transforming the facade of humanity into hedonism and animalism. Reminded me of Grandieux’s A New Life, the grotesque electronica version. This is a Gaspar Noe film through and through. The clearest improvement over his previous films is the rejection of his inclination to have an “emotional core.” This is just horrific fun.
Rated 13 Sep 2019
80
75th
Less a conventional story and more an experience that will leave you shaken. Or at least I was, to the point I had to lie down for a bit after. Can't say I was conceptually on board the entire time, but with such an outpouring of emotion I still find it hard to ignore.
Rated 20 Nov 2018
6
34th
With each new entry, only a shadow remains of the great filmmaker Noé once used to be. Technically, the film is top notch, with Benoît Debie proving once again why he's one of the best, but the human drama is rote, if not absent, and as a film, too conceptual to leave me with a lasting impression. Unless a 100 dB SPL is your idea of memorable.
Rated 28 Mar 2019
80
90th
Gaspar Noé continues to demonstrate why he's one of the most interesting and unique directors working today. His direction was phenomenal, I thought - hypnotic and technically impressive. He's superb at making the audience feel uncomfortable, and man, did it work here. It was truly nightmarish at points. My only complaint would be the music - I felt like it was a little generic and could've been better. I kinda loved it, and I can't wait to see what Noé has up his sleeve next.
Rated 29 Nov 2018
76
53rd
There's no-one like Noe, and each of his films are so startingly different. It's loads better than Love, but a far cry from his early work. The technical skills are technically improving, intelligently using a variety of static shots and unbelievably long tracking shots. Noe uses every trick in the cinema book to completely overwhelm and astound, and it works in drawing me in, though to exactly what end? Films like Irreversible and Enter the Void clearly had a point
Rated 08 Oct 2019
73
78th
Despite its excesses, the unity of time/space lends Climax an almost classic literary, albeit freeform, structure that results in Noe's most accessible film to date, and it proves that brevity is his strong suit. It doesn't overstay its welcome and is deftly edited for maximum impact. Noe gets solid performances out of his mostly non-professional cast, and the infernal finale featuring an upside down camera capturing the contorted thrashing of thighs and limbs is among his best work.
Rated 06 Apr 2019
10
6th
I think Gaspar Noe is hired by the government to make an anti-drugs film. No other decent explanation for this stupid film. Overly sexualized women, EXTREMELY racist undertones where the black characters are the first to turn violent under the influence, no point at all. Will Noe ever get out of puberty? I think not.
Rated 29 Oct 2020
70
34th
CRAZY!
Rated 23 Jul 2020
65
32nd
"Alright dance troupe, great day of rehearsal! Now let�s unwind and party" *dances the rest of the night*. The opening number was marvelous, but the subsequent half hour of locker room talk was unbearable, as was the rest of the movie. Idk what kind of acid Noe has been doing, but he seems to think it just makes you violent and nauseous
Rated 06 Oct 2018
81
80th
Step-Up Revolution but with Sangria/LSD cocktail.
Rated 04 Mar 2019
85
94th
an accurate representation of hanging out with dancers while they're on drugs ;-)
Rated 31 Jan 2019
83
92nd
Heavy! Still recovering!
Rated 26 Oct 2019
75
59th
You must be prepared for a barrage of audio and visual noise in any Noe film. Climax is no different. However, I found myself uncomfortably exhausted just one hour in. His subject matter is tame compared to previous work, but his signature camera work is assaulting.
Rated 13 Feb 2019
95
96th
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" kisses "Smack my Bitch up" with an extra Horror flavour.
Rated 05 Apr 2019
90
96th
A sledgehammer to the senses. The title sequence is one of the most stressful experiences I've had in a cinema. Noe taunting you 50 minutes into the movie that you haven't seen shit yet.
Rated 25 Nov 2018
60
54th
Not my favorite by Gaspar Noé, but it was captivating in its psychedelic craziness. The dance choreographs and dizzying camerawork were great. Apart from that the film felt a bit lacking in substance.
Rated 07 Nov 2018
75
76th
For the first half hour, I was upset how Gaspar Noé was full of himself and was ready to walk out. And as a movie, it isn't great. But there's about half an hour in the middle, when the camera just roves around, meeting and following varying people, that is just about perfect.
Rated 02 May 2019
77
77th
Dance rutines were stunning. I wanted more of them! The latter half was the weakest point of the film. The directing and the cinematography were clear extension of what Gaspar Noé has done before. They were just great! Clearly you just cannot get cold with it. It was like Jouko Turkka's musical.
Rated 27 Dec 2018
15
8th
Very very superficial advertisement against drug consumption with the usual Noe style perversion and experimentation. Offers an aesthetically satisfying opening dance scene but that's pretty much all. Sexualizes white female bodies and criminalizes black male bodies, as usual, and probably justifies this as a search for aesthetic and bodily transcendence. Don't buy it at all. This will probably be the last Noe movie I watched. This guy should shoot music videos instead of making movies.
Rated 17 Nov 2018
75
79th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ5V3OZdIZM
Rated 04 Nov 2018
83
82nd
You can't take your eyes off the madness.
Rated 12 Feb 2019
85
92nd
An intense cinematic experience.
Rated 17 Mar 2019
0
0th
Did I just watch the modern version of Reefer Madness? Is that what this was? Unbearably dull and aimless for the first hour, nonsensical after that. Every once in a while, the footage will cut so a disconnected, seemingly random aphorism can be displayed. You can't make that level of pretentiousness up. It boggles the mind that this movie has had the public reception that it has. I can only attribute that to the "wine tasting effect". Pretentious people pretending the king isn't naked.
Rated 15 Nov 2019
80
75th
Visceral.
Rated 29 Dec 2019
70
46th
Top badass moment? The dancing; (after the crappy interview chat at the start). It wasn’t skanking or pogoing, but... it was good. And Patrick Hernandez’s “Born to Be Alive”; one of the first 12” singles I ever bought. A group of ‘typical’ French youths dance around, drink spiked sangria and then behave weirdly. That’s pretty well it really. Disturbingly strange at times. I doubt Fred & Ginger were ever that irresponsible. Just say no. No cats, chainsaws or decapitations.
Rated 09 Dec 2018
6
65th
The dance sequences were bitchin', I couldn't get enough. The movie doesn't amount to much towards the end but it's still decent cinema and watchable until the end. You will probably like this too if you liked Into the Void, and if you enjoy dance performances at least a little.
Rated 20 Apr 2019
65
45th
It has its technical qualities, but it's far from the excellency that Noé once displayed. Still, it has some very good and other not so good moments. The moment before the drug effects is pretty enjoyable, the sequence with the spiral of the drug effects, on the other hand, is a construction that looks lost and forced. Still, a good look into the effects of drug abuse and the animalisation of human beings that let themselves be driven only by feelings.
Rated 03 Nov 2018
79
61st
Climax dedikleri kadar var, abarttıkları kadar yok. Özellikle uzun tutulan ve bir türlü gelişmeye girilemeyen giriş ve bir o kadar uzun tutulmuş sonuç görsel anlatım yüzünden sınıfta kalmış. Başyapıt, diyemem, çok kötü demem ama güzel derim. İyi abartıyorsunuz filmleri.
Rated 25 Mar 2019
80
74th
Possibly Noé's most accessible film yet, but still very much a Gaspar Noé film. Come for the impressive camera work and dance routines, stay for the inevitable escalation into a psychedelic horror trip.
Rated 27 Mar 2019
68
32nd
Noé tries to capture the brilliance of Enter the Void but falls short in my opinion. The extended sequences and long takes are fun and stylish, but the story and writing are lacking.
Rated 15 Oct 2018
65
41st
hersey cok iyi giderken super dans, eglence bir anda minik cocugun basina gelenler ve herkesin maruz kaldiklariyla olaylarin teen slashera donusmesi hikayeyi ahlakci algilatti. ya da bu grup bir sosyal deneye alindi ve manipule edildi
Rated 09 Feb 2024
68
70th
Does have characters and a story but they aren't really front and center. If you're able to enjoy film as sensation, mood and atmosphere, this is one of the better Gaspar Noés - especially the dance bit and dialogue portions. Ironically, the third act, the "climax" as it were, I found a little anti-climactic by comparison - but it's still good. The cinematography is a masterclass, using an all black and red color scheme, crazy angles and gyrating dolly camera movement.
Rated 08 Dec 2019
82
58th
Extraordinary craving, or necessity of living, unavoidably sails into extraordinary nightmare in collective impossibility of control.
Rated 11 Feb 2019
50
60th
Lacks depth and I could do with a little less screaming. But gosh, this movie put me on the edge more than any film this decade, perhaps ever.
Rated 26 Jan 2019
6
18th
Interesting premise, though I wasn't expecting the anti-drug bullshit. That's where it fails. Who wants to watch a bad trip?! Unfortunately, Noe once again takes a novel idea and creatively destroys it with cliches and poor judgement. This film is pretentious, tone deaf, detached, dishonest, cheaply disturbing, forced, overcompensating, and lacks cohesion--signature Noe. His writing is so dull and dry that you could easily mute most of the film and still not miss the platitudes. No more Noe.
Rated 24 Dec 2019
50
27th
Benoit Debie is the MVP in this film giving proof once more why one of the best cinematographers of the decade. Story is non-existant and meaningless. Therefore this film doesn't make an impact. It makes for a visual loud film that has nothing to say.
Rated 10 Sep 2018
88
83rd
Climax is strikingly tasteful and flourishes with Gaspar's unique way of infecting the audience. Without slowing down, we descend into hell along side these characters that become instinctive monsters. An overload with its demonic senses, and although it's hard to focus, it really is horrifically pleasing.
Rated 19 Sep 2021
62
80th
i watched this with a friend and he hates me now
Rated 05 Apr 2021
20
10th
This film is absolutely awful!
Rated 01 Jan 2020
70
89th
We all dance until chaos descends.
Rated 06 May 2019
71
41st
Yikes
Rated 29 Jul 2022
15
0th
Look, if I missed something, I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but what the heck was this? While the filming techniques were quite interesting, the story is one trippy mess (maybe that's the point?) and it's just not a fun film to watch.
Rated 13 May 2022
80
50th
kötu bir film kesinlikle değil, hele ki ilk yarıdaki dans sahneleri büyüleyici ve 'must seen' bana göre, ama Noe filmleri ile hep bir şeyler eksik ve havada kalıyor hissiyatı oluyor.
Rated 05 Jan 2020
85
88th
Psychedelic horror. Noe is a pioneer.
Rated 14 Mar 2019
50
27th
Not my gig, not my kink
Rated 27 Oct 2020
65
26th
There's about half an hour of brilliance in this movie. A better edit would've made this something special.
Rated 09 Dec 2022
73
44th
Despite a quietly confronting opening shot, and a VHS montage that feels like a subtle harbinger of doom, this ultimately emerges as a surprisingly tame Noé provocation that works best during the stunning dance sequences of the first half; once things “go to hell” in the second half, it becomes somewhat dreary and repetitive, bogging down in unpleasant scenes that don’t quite push hard enough into the graphic absurdism that Noé is famous for, leaving the film somewhat toothless and lifeless.
Rated 01 Apr 2020
71
57th
71.4
Rated 26 May 2019
70
23rd
?????? ???.????...
Rated 13 Nov 2021
80
22nd
Climax wuff.. Gasper Noe nin kargaşayı nasıl tanımladığını , krizleri ve iç içe geçmiş katosferik gerçekliği bir dans gibi sunduğu film. Filmde yanlışlıkla içilen bir uyuşturucu maddeyi sanki izleyici de tüketmiş gibi. Gasper Noa nın diğer filmlerini de izlemişseniz zaten anlatımına aşina olmuşsunuzdur. Bu filmde de kendine özgü anlatımı çok iyi kullanılmış ve filmde renklerle etkili bir yeni dil kullanmıştır. Hissiyatı ve kargaşayı renkler ve kamera
Rated 07 Nov 2019
73
71st
More of a cinematic experiment than a proper movie. It's endlessly impressive technically (from the skill of the dancers to the unconventional camera work to the improvised dialog and shot composition). Still, I think there needed to be a stronger narrative thread than "shit goes bonkers" (although there is some interesting subtext worth digesting) and the blaming of everything on spiked sangria comes off as out-of-touch drugsploitation. Still, the experiment is largely a success.
Rated 02 Oct 2019
75
66th
the first 40 min of climax is that long dance take interspersed w/ snippets of convo b/w characters. after that, people start realizing the sangria is dosed and all start losing their minds. then a bunch of fucking insane shit happens, and they make use of some cool lighting to give off that phantasmagoric suspiriesque vibe. the ambience and tone are cool but mandy pulled it off better.
Rated 17 Mar 2019
10
1st
The initial dance number was excellent, the rest was complete garbage.
Rated 16 Feb 2019
48
36th
Capricórnio
Rated 12 Oct 2018
70
17th
Filmekimi 2018
Rated 15 Mar 2019
87
89th
Well, this was something. Stunning directing, no need for a script.
Rated 24 Jul 2019
65
29th
I respect what he was going for here. The colour palette is dingy and hellish, the camera work is kinetic and adds to the chaos. Music is memorable, choreography of the dancing is great. Technically this is on point. But on a personal level, I didn't care that much for all the dancing, and when things go awry the pacing eventually shit the bed and I realized I was just waiting for the trip to end. Went from feeling uncomfortable (the intent) to a little bored (not the intent).
Rated 01 Oct 2018
5
81st
Gives me the same feeling I got while watching mother! where I just wanted to leave the theatre, but couldnt because I was too into the images.
Rated 31 Dec 2018
63
23rd
büyük-küçük adanmışlıklardan, kişisel isalardan, münzevilikten, orjilerden geçerek buluşabileceğimiz bir zirve/düşüş kalmadıysa geriye, artık ancak bir bad tribin gövdesinde bir araya gelebilir ve birbirimizde iz bırakmayı deneyebiliriz. plastik ya da değil.
Rated 03 Feb 2019
95
65th
My thoughts about this movie changes all the time but this is an amazing movie and thats that
Rated 30 Oct 2018
80
72nd
Kadıköy Sineması
Rated 07 Jun 2019
60
28th
After seeing Enter the Void few weeks before this is disappointing. Benoît is a camera-master but by now his tricks have become too commonplace to have an impact. Without a story or characters it gets lost in chaos, Last 20 minutes should have been crazy, instead it was rather boring.
Rated 28 Mar 2019
81
74th
Beautifully crafted movie that will bring you too tears and amaze you how life can make a simple twist, how drugs can bring you somewhere where you don`t recognize as home, yet you feel that this is where you must end eventually.
Rated 02 Feb 2019
50
17th
başım şişti vucuvucu
Rated 03 Oct 2019
62
31st
Noé is known for his visceral style, but Climax delivered neither the expected nor an engaging plot. The opening long-shot dance scene is superb with regards to the pacing and music pairing. Sadly it's all downhill from there, though maybe that's Noé's point. I found the characters to be mostly unsympathetic and frankly lousy people. By the time the red-lensed, rotating camera finale came round, rather than leaning into it I had given up. There is closure, but even that is unsatisfying,
Rated 20 Mar 2019
7
74th
Great camera work and choreography.
Rated 14 Jun 2019
93
98th
S
Rated 29 Sep 2019
5
73rd
tired premise to be sure, and this is easy to chide as a warning about the dissolution of societal structures in the modern liberal west, but keep in mind the locked room does not protect the screaming child. noe's is a cinema administered by a syringe and this is a collection of his 'greatest hits', pulsing with the flavors of death's "extraordinary experience", the horror and the ecstasy. this postmodern demise of culture and order, it thrills him just as much as it terrifies him.
Rated 20 Dec 2019
69
55th
Some scenes are simply incredible and with Noe's reputation, the slow burning increase of tension and anxiety inducing progression for the first two thirds made me excitedly uncomfortable with just how chaotically insane this was going to get, but then it just sorted faded to a relatively limp climax with admittedly a briefly satisfying sting in the closing shot. Opening dance scene was fu**ing outstanding and worth highlighting for sure.
Rated 08 Feb 2019
60
2nd
Then again another hedonistic movie of Gaspar Noe. If you are under effect of some stuff and want to have some kind of bad trips; this movie is what you are seeking for.
Rated 22 Nov 2018
60
8th
Climax’i de beğenmedim, nefret ettim, tiksindim, küfür ettim. Noe cephesinde yeni bir şey yok.
Rated 19 Sep 2021
11
1st
Infuriating
Rated 26 Dec 2019
80
63rd
Noé's really obssessed with birth and death and that's alright. I can't say I got any new thoughts on these topics from watching this movie though. But it certainly worked as an engine for the minimal but enganing plot which gets told in a captivating manner.
Rated 15 Dec 2019
55
14th
Bon points pour la musique
Rated 24 Nov 2019
20
1st
Well. Typical Noé's cynicism and perfume advertising expertise serving an empty exercise of world-ending bad trip with sex, drugs, a pregnant woman being beaten by another woman, a mother locking her only on at a windowless room and losing the key and some more grotesque porn-like "statements" on contemporary urban life. Whatever.
Rated 01 May 2020
72
54th
Dans, uyuşturucu, lsd, cinsellik, eşcinsel, lezbiyen, ensest SPOILER provadan sonra eğlenen dansçılardan biri içeceklere LSD koymuştur. Aklı fikri cinsellikte olan müptezeller iyice sapıtırlar. Bu arada bütün işi organize eden kadının bir oğlu vardır. Kadın hesapta çocuğu korumak için bir odaya kitler. Sonra anahtarı bulamaz. çocuk odada annesi dışarıda ölür. Alt metni bir şeyler anlatıyordur ama ben belgesel niyetiyle izledim.
Rated 13 Aug 2020
92
81st
Why do I have so much anxiety from a movie that had two 5 minute dance scenes. Fantasticly tense and beautifully shot, Gaspar Noé deliver a totally unique movie. It's horrific and tense, channeling a bad acid trip by making the movie feel like hours have passed ( I swear it's a good thing and not saying the movie dragged). It's soundtrack is fire and the acting is all top notch. Giving it a high score but I dont know anyone I could ever recommend this to.
Rated 19 Jun 2021
78
25th
Interesting and at times mesmerizing visuals, deeply fucked up
Rated 01 Apr 2023
2
1st
Orrrrrman
Rated 21 Oct 2019
70
65th
Great buildup and excellent cinematography. It's too bad that it goes off the rails in the last act.
Rated 19 Nov 2018
60
47th
Soğuk bir kış günü bir grup genç dans odasında kendilerini kaybediyor. Filmin konusu, ve çarpıcı sonu ile başımızı döndürüyor. Yönetmenin en hafif filmi diyebiliriz. Yanıyorum söndürelim mi? Çıktı ateşim indirelim mi?
Rated 14 Jun 2020
87
78th
A choreographed nightmare.
Rated 18 Nov 2018
70
42nd
Kasim 2018 & not sure what to think about. First half of the film is just great. Last half of the film is just awful (because of the moralistic story)
Rated 14 Oct 2019
83
70th
It reminds me of the homeless people of LA. This was like watching a musical/dance version of the most infamous scene in Irreversible. This has a great soundtrack.
Rated 07 Apr 2019
65
73rd
Interesting.
Rated 06 Oct 2018
80
75th
17. Filmekimi Rexx.
Rated 08 Oct 2018
20
3rd
09/10/2018 Filmekimi &Demet @Beyoğlu Sineması
Rated 26 Oct 2023
83
89th
sleazy, acrid, degenerate, and i friggin' love it.

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