High Life is as visually arresting as it is challenging, confounding, and ultimately rewarding - which is to say it's everything film fans expect from director Claire Denis. Ok, it doesn't really exist, but. The directness of Denis' images is disarming Suffice to say that it's the kind of movie that's direct enough in its imagery to make you feel as if you're just visiting a place that exists, yet expansive.
It feels like whole scenes were cut as certain parts made little sense with bad editing and I even had to read Wikipedia to fill in the gaps at times. The parents' guide to what's in this movie. Here is my review of High Life.
High Life Review: Robert Pattinson Gets Lost in Space. As contemplative and unsettling as it is, High Life struggles to develop its bleak sci-fi vision into Pattinson stars in High Life as Monte, whom the movie introduces as one of two survivors aboard a spaceship that's headed for a black hole, along. Film Review: Robert Pattinson in 'High Life'. Claire Denis reorients the sci-fi genre around bodies, babies, and black holes in her masterfully mystifying event-horizon nightmare. Film Review: Robert Pattinson in 'High Life'. Reviewed at Toronto Film Festival, (Gala Presentations).
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Starring Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche. In other words, High Life is a mixed bag filled with contradictions and complexity. High Life is a film marinated in solitude, anguish and desire.
Forget space — in oblivion, no-one can hear you scream. But High Life is the filmmaker at her most dark, a mesmerising, patience-testing, violent exploration in the darkest reaches of outer and inner space. Click Here For More Movie Reviews. High Life is a high minded, far reaching, ambitious piece of work supported by the skill and talent of the creatives behind The central portion of High Life is fantastic though, following unwilling astronaut Monte (Pattinson) on a multi-decade voyage to a black hole.