Climax

"Birth and death are extraordinary experiences. Life is a fleeting pleasure."

Mar 15 2019 R 1h 37m
Drama, Horror, Music

When a dance troupe is lured to an empty school, a bowl of drug-laced sangria causes their jubilant rehearsal to descend into a dark and explosive nightmare as they try to survive the night—and find who's responsible—before it's too late.

Plot

In the mid 1990's, 20 French urban dancers join together for a three-day rehearsal in a closed-down boarding school located at the heart of a forest to share one last dance. They then make one last party around a large sangria bowl. Quickly, the atmosphere becomes charged and a strange madness will seize them the whole night. If it seems obvious to them that they have been drugged, they neither know by who nor why. And it's soon impossible for them to resist to their neuroses and psychoses, numbed by the hypnotic and the increasing electric rhythm of the music. While some feel in paradise, most of them plunge into hell.

Written by

Gaspar Noé

Directed by

Gaspar Noé

Production Countries

United States of America, France, Belgium

Production Companies

Vice Studios, VOO, ARTE France Cinéma, Rectangle Productions, Wild Bunch

Languages

Français, English

Awards

8 wins & 15 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
87,575
Average Rating
6.9 out of 10
Metascore
69
Popularity
NA