Climax: Art and Animals {Movie Review}

The term cinematic super villain is one I’ve been throwing around for a while. Every so often, there comes a filmmaker that makes uncompromisingly dark, shocking, and provocative material that leaves an impact on the viewer. Then, they never stop; they make a career out of showing up out of the blue with a new, devilish feature. This isn’t the exploitation scene. No, these are the film festival darlings that thoughtfully mirror the moral bankruptcy in our world, directors along the lines of Abel Ferrara, Larry Clark, Lars Von Trier, Michael Haneke, among others. They don’t hide that they’re the “bad guys” and we the viewer begin to root for them, or we at least better brace ourselves for what we’re getting into. Sometimes these directors make horror films, and yet, some of the scariest films aren’t even classified as horror. Enter director, Gaspar Noe.

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