Club Zero

Released Mar 15

1 hr. 50 min.

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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61 Reviews

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At an international boarding school, an unassuming, yet rigorous, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) joins the teaching staff to instruct a new class on "conscious eating." Her impressionable teenage students each have their own reasons for joining the class -- to improve fitness, reduce their carbon footprint, or get extra credit. Although early lectures focus on mindful consumption, Miss Novak's discussions soon become increasingly disordered and extreme. A suspicious headmistress, concerned parents and the failing health of her students lead everyone to question the inscrutable Miss Novak's motivations for teaching the class. As a few devoted pupils fall deeper under her cult-like tutelage, they are given a new, even more sinister goal to aspire to -- joining the ominous "Club Zero."

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Critics Consensus

With Club Zero, writer-director Jessica Hausner uses satire to explore an array of ambitious ideas, and the results are fitfully striking even if they don't consistently cohere.

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Marius K

I absolutely loved it. Such a genial way of sewing actual, disturbing topics together into a scene which I wanted to turn off as well as continue to see. The kind of cliff hanger, both in the sense of the actual story and in that there is no résumé, no sweet taste to make it okay, leaves you with a heavy piece to digest. But I think this digestion could actually evoke some real conversations about the thematics of the movie in our society. ¡¡Certainly important to mention that this movie contains sensitive topics, such like anorexia and mental manipulation. So please keep your mental health in check.!!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

04/02/24

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avner k

A different kind of horror story - low-key, humorous, where the "monster" is the nutritionist. Well made.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/16/24

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Jessica Hausner

Director

Mia Wasikowska

Ms Novak

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Ms Dorset

Sam Hoare

Fred's Father

Amanda Lawrence

Ms Benedict

Camilla Rutherford

Fred's Mother

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Johanna Schneller

Globe and Mail

Hausner is clearly talented, and I’m all for a film without easy answers. But I wish this one was less insistently opaque.

Mar 29, 2024

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Sheila O'Malley

RogerEbert.com

Hausner's new film, "Club Zero," is an intense entry in her exploration of ideas run amok, of fantasy overtaking reality to the degree that reality itself is called into question.

Rated: 3/4

Mar 16, 2024

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William Repass

Slant Magazine

No matter where audiences sit on the political spectrum, they’re liable find something discomfiting, if not enraging, in the film.

Rated: 3/4

Mar 9, 2024

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Lee Jutton

Film Inquiry

Club Zero is often disturbing and always engaging, but it’s certainly not for everyone.

Apr 2, 2024

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Liz Braun

Original Cin

Jessica Hausner’s inky black satire about a messianic teacher’s control over her students is more disturbing than amusing but definitely riveting.

Rated: B+

Mar 28, 2024

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Luis Martínez

El Mundo (Spain)

Jessica Hausner gets entangled in a confusing metaphor about diets and excess consumption, so concerned with form that the plot faints from malnutrition. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 2/5

Mar 26, 2024

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Synopsis

At an international boarding school, an unassuming, yet rigorous, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) joins the teaching staff to instruct a new class on "conscious eating." Her impressionable teenage students each have their own reasons for joining the class -- to improve fitness, reduce their carbon footprint, or get extra credit. Although early lectures focus on mindful consumption, Miss Novak's discussions soon become increasingly disordered and extreme. A suspicious headmistress, concerned parents and the failing health of her students lead everyone to question the inscrutable Miss Novak's motivations for teaching the class. As a few devoted pupils fall deeper under her cult-like tutelage, they are given a new, even more sinister goal to aspire to -- joining the ominous "Club Zero."

Director: Jessica Hausner
Executive Producer: Kristin Irving, Eva Yates
Screenwriter: Jessica Hausner, Géraldine Bajard
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Société Parisienne de Production, Danish Film Institute, Paloma Productions, Coproduction Office, Club Zero, Arte, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH, Coop99 Filmproduktion
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 2024, Limited
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.4K
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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