Climax

Gaspar Noé at his most fiery and original

Gaspar Noé's latest feature is an exhilarating affair, a film about a group of dancers in a nightclub whose initially blissful evening turns very dark and violent after somebody spikes the Sangria with LSD. The concept is simple - in the course of one eventful night, the dancers are taken from heaven to hell. Noé tackles his material with enormous relish. The dance-off that we see early in the film, in which the characters compete with one another to show off their best moves, is filmed and performed with a manic energy that puts Gene Kelly's collaborations with Stanley Donen to shame. [...]

di Geoffrey MacNab, articolo completo (2013 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Independent 20 settembre 2018