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    CLIMAX

    Mar 03, 2019 1 minute
    —Michael Koresky

    Director: Gaspar Noé

    Country/Distributor: France/Belgium, A24

    Opening: March 1

    Youth culture gets a taste of its own medicine in Gaspar Noé’s apocalyptish musical. and the idiotic Thornton Wilder–meets–de Sade death trip , the first act is so enthrallingly performed by the extraordinary cast and the cinematography so rhythmically—even patiently—attuned to their movements that I momentarily crowned Noé the new demon king of the movie musical.

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