Climax (2018)

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Directed by: Gaspar Noe
Starring: Souheila Yacoub (Lou), Sofia Boutella (Selva), Romain Guillermic (David), Thea Carla Schott (Psyché), Sharleen Temple (Ivana), Giselle Palmer (Gazelle), Taylor Kastle (Taylor), Kiddy Smile (Daddy), Claude Gajan Maull (Emmanuelle), Léa Vlamos (Eva), Adrien Sissoko (Omar)
Country: France; Effed Up European Films
Language: French (Eng Subs); Effed Up French Movies
Runtime: 01:36:18
Genres: Drugs, Incest, SelfHarm-Suicide, Gay characters

Plot – Spoilers:
Following an audition, a group of dancers hold their final rehearsal in a decrepit building on the outskirts of Paris. In the celebratory party afterwards, they huddle in cliques bitching and lusting over each other. Soon they begin to experience panic and hallucinations and it is claimed that one of them had spiked the drinks with LSD. The intra-group animosities and prejudices surface as they turn on one another and themselves. Everyone gets fucked up and somehow you don’t feel bad for their plight.

Climax has a lot of Gaspar Noe’s staple aesthetics and technical marvels like a continuous shot that lasts half the film and weird vertigo-inducing camera angles. And a nice opening score with a woman’s cries as its lyrics.

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177 Comments
paul
paul
October 3, 2026 4:14 pm

i fucking love this film as much as i love gasper noe!

Me
Me
September 9, 2026 7:36 am

They suck so bad at dancing 😂😭
They all look like flailing chickens on crack 😭

Hello
Hello
July 7, 2026 5:30 am

I love the acting in this . Have been around people who are delirious on drugs / psychedelics and have been in a similar state myself . I have also seen / experienced overdoses which have a similar dreadful and helpless feeling. this film captures how it really feels so well . Even if a situation isn’t as dangerous/horrific as this film, The mental experience is still absolute terror , especially when things are quickly escalating & unpredictable. When it is multiple people who are delirious you are faced with a huge threat of things getting violent or of lives being lost and even that threat alone without things going that far is a lot to experience . I just like how suffocating and overwhelming this film is. I love how clearly none of the characters are able to comprehend reality as they can’t process their own actions, the consequences of what’s happening around them , etc . There are some people dancing, giggling, horny, while some of them are in complete mental terror. a lot of them switch between these feelings rapidly, are hyperfocused on things / people around them , portraying one emotion when they’re feeling another, paranoid and aggressive, generally completely confused and lost. In my experience getting delirious on a mix of substances including psychedelics had me feeling / acting in all of these ways for hours and I was at a risk of seriously injuring myself . It makes you very incoherent and you have… Read more »

misanthrope
misanthrope
June 18, 2026 5:15 pm

loved that movie!

rapemayor
rapemayor
March 23, 2026 5:58 pm

hell yeah