Climax

The Cannes Director’s Fortnight 2018 sensation, which the entertainment bible Variety called “FAME directed by the Marquis de Sade with a Steadicam”, finds French extreme cinema’s incorrigible wild child Gaspar Noé at the peak of his confrontational and hypnotically mesmerising powers. A young dance troupe rehearse for an upcoming American tour in a dingy school assembly hall. But someone spikes the mid-session break drinks with LSD and soon A Chorus Line Heaven becomes nightclubbed Hell in an escalating nightmare of intense emotions and apocalyptic actions. Based on true events, this...