Best one of 2018 and one of the best Horror Films ever made

Rating: 9/10 (30 January 2019)

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I did not expect this. Fantastic, nearly unbearable. Realistic characters and dialogue. At around the one hour mark, it started to get almost unbearable for me. A mix of consideration for my set row neighbors and laziness kept me seated. Making the experience all the more intense, while, in retrospect, for the rest of the film not adding much more info about the story and development as I had already picked up.
In his last films "Love 3D", "Enter the Void" and "Irreversible", G.N. moves around from and between different states of extremes. Which gives you time to catch a breath. He tends to move between pain and harmony. This time, its practically one continuos spiral downhill into some of the worst human actions. "Climax" is right to the point for the most part and starts of with a breathtakingly engaging dancing performance. Making most of the characters to be professional or -to be dancers was a brilliant choice, since it allowed to tell let them portray so many emotions, behaviors and experiences in a very special yet authentic and realistic, physical and often non verbal way. Always captured with beautiful and organic camera movements and a great but never ending soundtrack, that contributes to pull you in further, leaving no escape. A real horror trip. Relying neither on the supernatural or expensive effects. All we see is pure human behavior at some of its worst, sometimes tragic sometimes sadistic, under the involuntary influence of some very heavy substances.
They all had their demons (issues and worse) inside themselves right form the start. Definitely one of the best Horror films ever.
It is a shame, that it wasn't filmed stereoscopically, at the same time I doubt that in that event I would have stayed in my seat until the end of the movie.
I do not want to see it again in a very long time if ever. I recommend with a strong caution: leave or turn off as soon as you feel like it.