Atom User Reviews for High Life
A movie that can’t be explained it must be experienced.
well. what to say. I'm an hour into it and I'm still not sure what is going on. I usually like odd movies but this is pretty boring. I bet an artsy type of person would appreciate more.
Existential, hard sci-fi art-house flick.
Great film.
Metacritic
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.
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.
