climax

Riverdale Season 5 Episode 1 Review – Chapter 77: Climax

This RIVERDALE review contains spoilers. Riverdale Season 5 Episode 1 “Clearly our last two weeks of high school are going to be fraught…” Friends, on this day we find this country starting a new chapter, one that is full of hope and excitement for the future. I am of course referring to the airing of Riverdale‘s season premiere, a somewhat wheel-spinning, melodramatic affair that feels more like the closing pages of a book than the start of another story. And that’s because it is precisely that. This episode was a leftover from last year, filmed but not completed production until…
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Climax

From director Gaspar Noe (Irreversible; Enter the Void; Love) comes a hypnotic, hallucinatory, and ultimately hair-raising depiction of a party that descends into delirium over the course of one wintry night. In Climax, a troupe of young dancers gathers in a remote and empty school building to rehearse. Following an unforgettable opening performance lit by virtuoso cinematographer Benoit Debie (Spring Breakers; Enter the Void) and shot by Noe himself, the troupe begins an all-night celebration that turns nightmarish as the dancers discover they've been pounding cups of sangria laced with potent LSD. Tracking their journey from jubilation to chaos and…
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