Club Zero

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Club Zero

2024

1h 50m

Drama

Mystery & Thriller

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68 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."

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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Nicolas Rapold

Sight & Sound

May 13

The film settles tediously into the largely one-note groove of are-they-or-aren’t-they (secretly eating, that is), in a narrative game of withholding information that feels oddly dated.

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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.

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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.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Common Sense Media

04/04/2025

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.

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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]

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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]

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Elene N

@RT17590265 Nov 3

Awful, felt like an insult.

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Cristina L

@RT04154620 12/29/2024

Muito bem escrito e dirigido

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genizes l

@RT89288103 12/29/2024

É muito bom ,quando acabou queria mais

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Izumi N

@RT62902691 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.

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Marianne D

@MDSmovies 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.

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Jonas B

@RT21073641 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.

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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)