Video: Gaspar Noé’s Climax | 2018 Cannes Film Festival

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In terms of the narrative, it might be his most minimalist and arguably, this stands as Gaspar Noé‘s best film to date. In terms of blueprint for both sound (Ken Yasumoto) and image (Benoît Debie’s vibrantly camerawork), this is an eyegasm pretty after the introduction of characters (VHS tape interview) are done with Climax. which our Nicholas Bell explains as “forever attuned to the sensory possibilities of cinema, provides a film which begins like a hit of amyl nitrate before it descends headlong into hysterical overdose territory, reeling like a nasty hangover after closing time at Berghain.” We would have preferred to see the night screening with cast in full dance mode, but we were nonetheless on hand for the world preem screening in the early a.m where all the buzz broke.

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022, he was a New Flesh Juror for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival. His top films for 2023 include The Zone of Interest (Glazer), Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (Pham Thien An), Totem (Lila Avilés), La Chimera (Alice Rohrwacher), All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (Raven Jackson). He is a Golden Globes Voter.

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