Described by critics as a “satanic Step Up” and “Fame directed by the Marquis de Sade”, Climax is the Gasper Noé-directed feature film that has provoked people to walk out of cinemas in outrage since its premiere at Cannes in 2018.
A bowl of spiked sangria is the catalyst to Climax’s gradual descent into despotic chaos. Noé edits footage from the film into this music video that features dancers vogueing, krumping and breakdancing themselves to near ruin—like a dystopian High School Musical on acid.
Thomas Bangalter, the French musician and DJ best known as half of Daft Punk,who wrote the track featured here is a frequent collaborator on Noé-directed projects—also composing the soundtrack to the director’s 2002 psychological thriller, Irréversible.