Climax (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Climax |
| Original title | Climax |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | English , French |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gaspar Noé |
| script | Gaspar Noé |
| production |
Edouard Weil , Alice Girard , Vincent Maraval |
| camera | Benoît Debie |
| cut |
Denis Bedlow , Gaspar Noé |
| occupation | |
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Climax is a French film directed by Gaspar Noé from the year 2018 .
action
The film begins with a young woman, Lou, who crawls through a wintry landscape, laughing and screaming, leaving a trail of blood in the snow.
A few hours earlier: 21 young dancers present an elaborate dance choreography that they have rehearsed together over the last three days. Besides them, the choreographer Emmanuelle, her young son Tito and the DJ "Daddy" are also present in the remote school. After the screening, the start of the upcoming tour will be celebrated. However, in the conversations it becomes clear that there are some problems within the group.
As the discussions become more intense and the dances more and more exuberant, Selva realizes that the sangría , which almost all dancers have been drinking from, is drugged. After expressing this suspicion out loud, the group first harassed Emmanuelle, who mixed the sangria, but also drank it himself, and then Omar, who does not drink alcohol for religious reasons. Incited by the increasing effects of the drug, the group forcibly throws Omar out of school into the snowy cold.
After the situation continued to escalate, Emmanuelle locks her little son Tito in a room to protect him from the increasingly aggressive dancers. Meanwhile, Selva follows her friend Lou into the room. Lou tells Selva that she also didn't drink the sangria because she is pregnant. The new dancer Dom accuses Lou of having mixed the LSD in the sangria. When she defends herself with the pregnancy, Dom hits her hard in the stomach several times under the influence of the drugs and returns to the dance floor.
Lou follows Dom and threatens her completely furious with a knife, but all the other dancers except Selva do not believe in Lou's pregnancy and instead encourage her to injure herself with group dynamic insults. Lou hits himself several times in the stomach, cuts himself with the knife and then escapes into the bathroom. In the meantime, Tito, who also had a few sips of the sangria, started to work the drug, causing him to panic. Emanuelle tries to free him, but has lost the key. While she is desperately looking for the key, the light suddenly goes out: Tito has touched the electrical fuse box and received a fatal blow.
In the reddish semi-darkness of the emergency lighting, the dancers now completely go mad, knock each other out, smear each other with food or have unrestrained sex with each other. A dancer's hair catches fire and the siblings Taylor and Gazelle also sleep together. Selva flees from her hallucinations to Ivana's room.
The next morning the police arrive with a sniffer dog and investigate the chaos. Several people are dead: Omar froze to death in the cold and Emmanuelle killed himself with a knife in front of the door behind which the body of her son is. The remaining dancers are either unconscious, suffering from the after-effects of the drug, or asleep. Taylor and Gazelle are in bed together after sex, as is Ivana and Selva. Ivana's friend Psyche drips LSD into her eyes in her room, a book called "LSD Psychotherapy" on her bed strongly suggests that she was the one who mixed the LSD into the sangria. Meanwhile, Lou stumbles dazed from school into the snow.
publication
The film was released in German cinemas on December 6, 2018.
Reviews
The film was received positively by the critics, with Rotten Tomatoes the film was able to convince 71% of the critics. At Metacritic , the film received a Metascore of 67 out of 100.
Michael Meyns wrote on film starts : “Gaspar Noé's Climax is a 95-minute film frenzy, a rousing excess that defies any convention. And under the experimental surface, the director negotiates the big themes of sex and drugs, life and death. ”Meyns awarded 4 out of 5 stars.
“The dance film, carried by rousing club music, celebrates transgressive motion cinema, in which sex, violence and breaking taboos are more lived out than contextualized. That irritates and disturbs, but at the same time fascinates as a radical orgy of unleashing, especially since the decidedly cinematic perspective cannot be assigned to a human gaze. "
Trivia
- At Climax , the credits run through the picture before the film and not at the end of the film as usual.
- At the beginning of the film you see an old television set, on which interviews with the protagonists of the following film Climax are shown, about topics such as the importance of dance as the purpose of life, the belief in a paradise , the consumption of drugs and the worst personal nightmares. The blonde dancer Psyche from Berlin, played by Thea Carla Schott, explains : “ I don't want to end up like Christiane F. , you know? ". To the left of the TV set is a stack of books, for example about Friedrich Nietzsche and Fritz Lang , plus The Metamorphosis of Franz Kafka in a French-language edition and the monograph on Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau by Lotte Eisner . On the right is a pile of VHS tapes , including the films Suspiria by director Dario Argento , Possession by director Andrzej Żuławski , The 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini , An Andalusian Dog , Le Droit du plus fort by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome by director Kenneth Anger .
- Occasionally, during the action, short sayings are faded in, such as “Being is a fleeting illusion”, “Being born is a unique opportunity”, “Life is a collective impossibility” and “Dying is an extraordinary experience”.
- The film consists of long camera shots without editing, with quick pans and the neon-gaudy aesthetics of a pop music video clip . The longest single shot is over 42 minutes. In places the film image is even upside down.
- The soundtrack for the film includes songs by Aphex Twin ( Windowlicker ), Soft Cell ( Tainted Love and Where Did Our Love Go ), Giorgio Moroder ( Utopia Me Giorgio ) and Gary Numan (Trois Gymnopédies - Eric Satie ).
Web links
- Climax in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Climax at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Climax at Metacritic (English)
- Climax in the online film database
- Official site for the film (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Climax . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Climax at Rotten Tomatoes (English) . Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- ↑ Climax In: Metacritic. Retrieved May 26, 2019.
- ^ Michael Meyns: Climax - film review. In: film starts . Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Climax. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 8, 2019 .