Club Zero

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Club Zero

Released Mar 15

1h 50m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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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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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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Gisela Savdie

El Heraldo

The movie incorporates symbolic details, such as the school uniform, and ritual objects associated with the program, which contribute to the construction of an alternative world where obsession and distortion confront reality [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 14, 2024

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Guillermo Courau

La Nación (Argentina)

Even though the reaffirmation of concepts may be repetitive, the film offers a critical and powerful message about reality, the absence of values, and individualism and its consequences. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/5

Jul 5, 2024

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Pablo O. Scholz

Clarín

Jessica Hausner likes shocking situations and characters that while certainly not extraordinary, (re)discover themselves by doing unthinkable actions. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 3/4

Jul 5, 2024

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Marianne D

This is actually a thing. People believing that they don't need food in order to live. Using students, whose parents obviously send them to a school where these parents don't care very much is horrifying. History should be believed because people do die of starvation. I can't say it's the worst movie I have seen, but I certainly hope lessons have been learned. I'm afraid maybe not so, because cults are still extremely popular. It's very sad.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/13/24

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Jonas B

About 60% of shots of this film are zoom shots - some zoom in and then later out for no apparent reason. Presumably, the cameraman was as bored as the poor audience. Cinematographers risk feeling personally insulted watching this. Why is the dialogue in English? The atrocious 'international' and vague euro-accent truly sounds like nails on a chalkboard and gets thouroughly in the way of the junior actors' performances. This does complement the score. The wardrobe and scenography also stand out as awful, along with mostly every other component of this pile of dog droppings. Let's not even delve into the directing and writing - all you need to know is don't waste your time watching this or you run the risk of having to throw up after failing to digest this.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

11/09/24

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Mauricio T

Inquietante y muy apegada a la realidad, recomendada.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

08/04/24

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Audience Member

Embarrassingly bad. Pretentious attempt at satire falls flat at every hurdle.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

07/06/24

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Voodoo V

Very surreal horror flick about the dangers of what happens when parents won't back down from horrifically wrong choices. Approved outsourced teachings lead their kids into the arms of a death cult. Creepy!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/23/24

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Aldis H

The music is beyond obnoxious, the premise is laughable, the acting if often atrocious, and what's supposed to be satire doesn't come off at all. This is a monumentally stupid movie. Zero emphatic stars.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/13/24

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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
Producer: Johannes Schubert, Bruno Wagner, Philippe Bober, Mike Goodridge
Screenwriter: Jessica Hausner, Géraldine Bajard
Distributor: Film Movement
Production Co: Paloma Productions, Arte, Société Parisienne de Production, Coproduction Office, Danish Film Institute, Coop99 Filmproduktion, Club Zero, Essential Filmproduktion GmbH
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 15, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 21, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.4K
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Flat (1.85:1)

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