Night Visions celebrates the kick-off of the summer of 2023 as well as the kick-off of the surfing season at WHS Teatteri Union in Helsinki on Saturday, June 3, 2023. The lineup of the evening consists of screenings of two features you’re not likely to come across at your local multiplex any time soon.
Showtimes:
06.00 PM SURFER: TEEN CONFRONTS FEAR (USA 2018, dir. Douglas Burke, 98 min)
08.00 PM CLIMAX (France/Belgium 2018, dir. Gaspar Noé, 95 min)
Dialogue of SURFER in English, no subtitles. Dialogue of CLIMAX in French, subtitles in English.
Tickets (10,00 euros a piece / 16,00 for the double feature) available through the venue’s webstore: https://teatteriunion.fi/elokuva/nv0306/
SURFER trailer in YouTube: https://youtu.be/r03nDeTc1iM
CLIMAX trailer in YouTube: https://youtu.be/Hi69nL_VrTE
The lobby bar of WHS Teatteri Union is open prior to and during the screenings, hence the age restriction of both screenings is strictly “18”.
Street address of the venue: Siltavuorenranta 18, 00170 Helsinki.
SURFER press quotes:
“I recommend you run, don’t walk (or surf!) to see Surfer.”
– Simon Barrett / Talkhouse
“A true cult film, and it must be seen to be believed.”
– David J. Moore / Den of Geek
“Deserves to be widely celebrated”
– Jon Dieringer / Screen Slate
“Fascinatingly absurd”
– Grant Pardee / Vice
“A once in a lifetime motion picture so unique that it cannot be categorized like a traditional movie.”
– David J. Moore / Flickering Myth
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CLIMAX press quotes:
“[Gaspar] Noé is giving us a cinema of sensual outrageousness and excess that makes other films look middleaged and tame. — When Gaspar medicines you, you stay medicined. — It is as if Noé has somehow mulched up the quintessence of dance, coke and porn together and squooshed it into his camera. If that sounds horrible, then yes it is, but also, often, demonically inspired. You feel like the silhouette guy getting zapped by the lightning bolt in the ‘Danger High Voltage’ sign.”
– Peter Bradshaw / The Guardian
“It’s ‘Fame directed by the Marquis de Sade,’ it’s ‘a typically confrontational cocktail of music and horror … dropped on its audience like the bucket of blood from Carrie,’ it’s ‘Step Up meets Enter the Void‘ — these were a few of the creative descriptions of Gaspar Noe’s dance-dance-devolution epic Climax coming out of the festival circuit press — Here are a few more comparisons for the critical pile: It’s Busby Berkeley by way of Hieronymus Bosch, with God’s-eye shots of bodies whirling and whizzing through whiplash geometric patterns on their way to mass hysteria. It’s a dance party set in an upper-circle tier of hell. It’s a great approximation of a very, very bad trip.”
– David Fear / Rolling Stone