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"A “love him or hate him” proposition if ever there was one, Gaspar Noé has been dividing audiences and causing post-screening arguments ever since he first began cutting a swathe through the festival circuit, making films fired by a desire to provoke, titillate, punish, and above all overwhelm with sheer technical mastery and heedless exploration of all things terrible and taboo. On the occasion of the release of his bravura latest, the orgiastic dance marathon Climax, screening for Members Only as a sneak preview, we look back on a career of boundary-busting and transgressive transcendence, as exemplified by two distinct works. Buckle up."—Metrograph