When Dancers Trip: Gaspar Noé Stages A Visceral But Vacuous Freakout In 'Climax'
A French dance troupe drinks sangria spiked with LSD and descends into carnal violence in a film that turns into "just another Noé freakout, familiar in tone and stylistic tics."
What happens when more than a dozen professional dancers, pulsing with lust and resentment, get dosed with LSD?
Their lives turn into a Gaspar Noé movie.
Technically, of course, is a Gaspar Noé movie from its opening: an ominous flash-forward that quickly yields to a rush of credits, including the small-print ones that usually run at a film's, his assaultive 2002 rape drama-in-reverse.
