Gaspar Noé lives up to his name with an orgy of sex and self-mutilation
di Robbie Collin The daily Telegraph
Gasp! Argh! No way! If ever a director lived up to their name, it is Gaspar Noé, the Argentinian gonzo provocateur whose film Irreversible was the famous cause of walkouts and fainting fits at its 2002 Cannes premiere.
Following the temporary lull in form of his damp-squib 3D sex film Love, Noé has returned to full operational strength with Climax, a dance film which plays something like Pasolini's stomach-churning Salò by way of the old Busby Berkeley extravaganza Gold Diggers of 1933.
Claiming to be based on true events, the film follows a street dance troupe on an intensive residential course at a school on the outskirts of Paris, whose post-rehearsal punchbowl is spiked with some unknown hallucinatory substance, bringing on a speedy mass descent into Noéan psychosis. [...]
di Robbie Collin, articolo completo (3147 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The daily Telegraph 20 settembre 2018
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