Light up the Void  

After seeing Gaspar Noé's 2009 film Enter the Void, director David Fincher praised its opening credits, created by Parisian designer Tom Kan. He described them as "a jackhammer to the forehead." In the same vein (and after the fiasco of Love in 2015), here comes Climax, Noé's latest creation in the New French Extremity genre. The film follows a troupe of dancers rehearsing a breathtaking choreography, then celebrating their performance by drinking sangria which, we soon learn, contains a dangerous hallucinogen.

Where Enter the Void took the viewer inside the body, Climax penetrates the darkest and most screaming recesses of the mind. It's a visually intense and sonically vibrant film, one that plunges you into a new kind of hell and deeply affects you. Its rhythmic 3D opening credits, also designed by Kan, appear after more than 40 minutes and feature imposing typography, driving electronic beats, and striking iconography. And, like Brady Corbet's Vox Lux (2019), the main credits are shifted toward the end of the film, while the dense credits appear at the beginning.