Intoxicating and brilliant

Rating: 9/10 (7 June 2020)

Climax is a story about a group of dancers who have their drink spiked with LSD, the night only goes downhill from there. I loved watching these people change and begin behaving extremely irrationally. These people go from being mostly friendly with each other to very aggressive towards other becoming extremely violent and making people do completely insane things as the film gets more insane as well. Everything about Climax becomes crazy by the 40 minute mark, the camera does not stop moving at all from this point, it is upside-down for very long periods of time. Even when the camera is not filming upside-down every shot is still very interesting, whether it's showing impressive dancing for following someone around as the mingle with the crowd something interesting is always happening. Every performance is great, so good In fact I could not pick out a best or worst performance. Having so many long takes and pulling off some very difficult dance moves in pretty much all of them along with acting high on LSD would have been a nightmare but as I said the cast was great and pulled this off flawlessly. There are so many unique aspects shown in this film that just don't come up that often, like the Birdman esq long takes or the completely original dance choreography. All the technical aspects were also brilliant, I could not point out an obvious problem with these either. I should also mention there are some quite horrifying sequences in this film that personally tend to enjoy but these may put some viewers off. Despite all of this praise, there are a couple of things I did not enjoy . I first being some of the convocations felt a bit pointless. Second even though I loved the dancing in this film there was a lot of it at the start of the movie and it got a bit repetitive at a point, it became much more entertaining once the film picked up, but I feel a couple minutes of dancing could have been cut. Other than these two minor issues I loved the rest of this film and highly recommend you watch it.