High Life

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  • 1hr 50m
  •  (25)
  • 78

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Claire Denis

Producer:

Fee Buck, Laurence Clerc, Isabel Davis

Writer:

Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox

Release Date:

Apr 12, 2019

Runtime:

1hr 50m

Synopsis

Monte (Robert Pattinson) and his infant daughter are the only passengers on a dingy space ship bound for an inevitable collision course with a black hole. This hallucinogenic, fractured science fiction story from acclaimed director Claire Denis — her first English-language film — spins back through the events that led these two people to their fate.

The truth behind Monte’s voyage to the end of the solar system, and the incredible story of what happened to the ship’s former crew — and the maniacal doctor who drove them to the brink of sanity — is like a twisted and perverse riff on 2001: A Space Odyssey featuring Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, and Mia Goth alongside Pattinson.

Cast

  • Robert Pattinson
  • Juliette Binoche
  • André Benjamin
  • Mia Goth
  • Agata Buzek
  • Lars Eidinger
  • Claire Tran
  • Ewan Mitchell
  • Gloria Obianyo
  • Scarlett Lindsey

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#indiehit
#intense
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#intense
#beautiful
#incomprehensible

A movie that can’t be explained it must be experienced.

2 of 2 helpful votes
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Kimberly L
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#indiehit
#original
#greatcast

Existential, hard sci-fi art-house flick.

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Metacritic

78
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Based on 42 Critics
6.3

USER SCORE (149)

Generally favorable reviews based on 149 Reviews
100
Dec 1, 2021

The lure of intense mystery that beguiles you into trying to solve it again and again; the transference of an intoxication that makes you feel physically different afterwards. It sounds hyperbolic to describe art as having such power, but surely the reason we care about art is a belief that such power exists. High Life is too layered, too ambiguous, too potent to be about any one thing.

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Sophie Monks Kaufman
Little White Lies
88
Apr 9, 2019

Transfixing? A bore? I cannot answer for you. If think Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” is as far out as you go with this sort of setting, this is not your thing. Undeniably, though, High Life is an organic achievement.

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Metacritic review by Maureen Ryan
Maureen Ryan
Chicago Tribune
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