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Club Zero

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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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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 03/29/2024
Hausner is clearly talented, and I’m all for a film without easy answers. But I wish this one was less insistently opaque. Go to Full Review Sheila O'Malley RogerEbert.com 03/16/2024
3/4
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. Go to Full Review William Repass Slant Magazine 03/09/2024
3/4
No matter where audiences sit on the political spectrum, they’re liable find something discomfiting, if not enraging, in the film. Go to Full Review Jeffrey M. Anderson Common Sense Media Apr 4
3/5
Extremely bleak and icy for a "comedy," this movie takes a dry, clinical approach to exploring people's troubling behaviors and impulses; the point isn't always clear, but it's hard to look away. Go to Full Review Gisela Savdie El Heraldo 07/14/2024
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] Go to Full Review Guillermo Courau La Nación (Argentina) 07/05/2024
3/5
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] Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Elene N Nov 3 Awful, felt like an insult. See more Cristina L 12/29/2024 Muito bem escrito e dirigido See more genizes l 12/29/2024 É muito bom ,quando acabou queria mais See more Izumi N 12/23/2024 I left a cinema before the end of movie. The reason is that I can simply guess what it would develop. I know I am a bit arrogant but cannot help leaving; even the part before my departure was boring enough. See more Marianne D @Mlikesmovies 12/13/2024 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. See more Jonas B 11/09/2024 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. See more Read all reviews
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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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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
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
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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