Climax

Birth and death are experiences without equal. Life is a fleeting pleasure.

In the mid-90s, 20 urban dancers gather for a three-day rehearsal in a disused boarding school in the middle of a forest to share one last dance together. Afterward, they throw a party and gather around a big glass of Sangria…

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WINNER – Cannes Film Festival – Directors' Fortnight Top Prize Art Cinema Award.
WINNER – Neuchâtel Intl. Fantastic Film Festival – Best Film.
WINNER – Neuchâtel IntlFantastic Film Festival Melies D'Argent – Best European Fantasy Film.
WINNER – Sitges Intl Film Festival – Melies D'Or – Best European Fantasy Film.
WINNER – Sitges International Film Festival – Best Film.

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***** “Mottled, casual and seamless against the background of a glittering tricolor” – SVD
**** “An instant feel-bad classic” – SVT
“Cinematic French danse macabre à la 2018, the likes of which have hardly been seen before” – The Entertainment Guide
“The dance scenes get straight into your body” – Aftonbladet
“Undeniably incomparable” – Today's News

“Visually brilliant” – Sydsvenskan ***** “Certainly the best snapshot of a talented filmmaker” – Indiewire
**** “Visually extraordinary, structurally and formally audacious” – The Guardian
**** “Noé is giving us a cinema of sensual outrageousness and excess” – The Guardian
“A massive pop orgy.” – Les Inrockuptibles
"An extraordinarily intense experience" - Screen
“Total trance” – Telerama