A terrifyingly mesmerising experience

Rating: 9/10 (6 February 2019)

This film is not for the faint of heart. A truely terrifying glance into a party gone wrong, Gaspar Noe's Climax is as beautiful as it is disturbing. The interlocking storylines flow from one another with ease, the smooth camera work guiding it slowly down a darkly disorienting path. Every change of angle and every movement seemed to have purpose to the visuals and characters, and created a nightmareish sense of dread that continued until the end. Similar to Enter the Void, the drawn out sequences of people dancing around and screaming added to the feeling that the film would never stop, which only but added to the horror of the events unfolding on screen.
A truely anxiety-inducing film, it's an experience that I expect most fans of Gaspar Noe will highly enjoy. As well as this, I feel it is his most accessable film yet. For anyone wanting to get into arthouse film or the films of Gaspar Noe specifically, this would be a good place to start.