High Life

Name: High Life
Genre: Adventure, Sci-Fi
Released: TBA
Rating: 81
Cast: Agata Buzek, André Benjamin, Claire Tran, Ewan Mitchell, Gloria Obianyo

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Universal acclaim based on 14 Critics

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RELEASE DATE: TBA

Movie Details & Credits

Front Row Filmed Entertainment | Release Date: TBA

Starring: Agata Buzek, André Benjamin, Claire Tran, Ewan Mitchell, Gloria Obianyo, Juliette Binoche, Lars Eidinger, Mia Goth, Robert Pattinson

Summary: A father and his daughter struggle to survive in deep space where they live in isolation.

Director: Claire Denis

Genre(s): Adventure, Sci-Fi

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Critic Reviews

100

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) - Barry Hertz

Sep 12, 2018

By twisting around preconceptions of what an outer-space epic should be, French auteur Claire Denis returns to the fertile ground of her Trouble Every Day era, using genre to dig beneath themes that others would only treat as skin-deep. Read full review

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The Film Stage - Josh Lewis

Sep 13, 2018

The crew’s suffering is bleak and oppressive, but Denis invites us to witness it so that we truly understand the power of Monte’s conviction in his improvised mission...and Denis is so emotionally in tune with what that might feel like it becomes overwhelming. Read full review

100

CineVue - Christopher Machell

Sep 15, 2018

What Denis’ film is concerned with is the visceral bodily experience and the claustrophobia of living in the middle of the infinite. If outer space is a cold and vast external of nothingness, then there is also an interior space of bodies, living, writhing, and fluid. Read full review

Variety - Jessica Kiang

Sep 10, 2018

This kinky, often grotesque melding of genre science-fiction with all-out body horror is an audacious project, but the scope of its ambition is cleverly reined in by the low-key presentation, its more salacious potential muted down to an insistent threatening hum, like the background radiation of Stuart Staples’ score. Read full review

Vanity Fair - K. Austin Collins

Sep 14, 2018

The movie seems to be a study of the artificial limits we put on our desires—and the ways those desires naturally betray us. This being Denis, she of course goes above and beyond merely exposing those limits; she must also, of course, expose the audience’s limits in the process. Read full review

The A.V. Club - A.A. Dowd

Sep 11, 2018

In terms of mood, cosmetics, and rhythm, it’s a worthy addition to the great filmmaker’s canon. Read full review

Observer - Rex Reed

Sep 28, 2018

An unwatchable sci-fi creep-out by eccentric French director Claire Denis, it stars Robert Pattinson, who devotes himself these days to art films in an effort to live down his reputation as a sexy television vampire. Read full review

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