Club Zero

Name: Club Zero
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Released: March 15, 2024
Duration: 110 min
Rating: 55
Cast: Amanda Lawrence, Amir El-Masry, Camilla Rutherford, Elsa Zylberstein, Florence Baker

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Film Movement | Release Date: March 15, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Amanda Lawrence, Amir El-Masry, Camilla Rutherford, Elsa Zylberstein, Florence Baker, Keeley Forsyth, Mark Khan, Mathieu Demy, Mia Wasikowska, Sam Hoare, Sidse Babett Knudsen

Summary: At an international boarding school, an unassuming, yet rigorous teacher, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska), joins the 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 earlyAt an international boarding school, an unassuming, yet rigorous teacher, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska), joins the 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.”… Expand

Director: Jessica Hausner

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 110 min

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Liz Braun

Mar 28, 2024

It’s creepy as hell, watching these kids with no purpose and a desperate need to be doing something important become sucked into notions about self-control and salvation. Read full review

The Playlist Charles Bramesco

May 24, 2023

Taken as a bone-dry satirical comedy, this would be a cruelly glib treatment of material sensitive enough to merit a trigger warning in bright yellow prior to the opening credits. But this agonizing tour through private agony deserves to be taken more seriously than that. Read full review

Sabina Dana Plasse

Nov 16, 2023

Quirky and uncomfortable but hard to turn away from, Club Zero is reminiscent of Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster, especially because it has a tone of below-average existence masked in contemporary and forward-thinking superficialities. Read full review

Johanna Schneller

Mar 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. Read full review

Wendy Ide

May 24, 2023

It looks terrific – as always Hausner’s use of colour and costume is striking and eloquent – but this is a thinly-written picture that operates on a largely superficial level. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

May 26, 2023

Club Zero is less a cautionary tale about eating disorders than a satire on environmental anxieties, extreme activism, and the sometimes-competitive nature of those who get swept up in it. That’s a tasty premise, but Hausner’s take is frankly a cynical one and, much like the plate of vomit that dominated headlines after the film’s premiere last week in Cannes, it leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth. Read full review

The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

May 24, 2023

Club Zero is a strenuous, pointless non-satire which fails to say anything of value about its ostensible subjects: body image, eating disorders and western overconsumption. Read full review

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