High Life (2018)
Country: FR/GB/GER/POL/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 113m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin
Synopsis:
A former convict finds himself floating in space outside a black hole with only his daughter for company, the unintended consequence of an experiment whereby condemned men and women crew a ship sent to harness the limitless energy to be found there.
Review:
Impossible really to qualify this as science fiction, given that nothing remotely scientific is explained to us and its events and atmosphere are more redolent of horror. Unfurling mostly in flashback, as we come to see how Monte and his daughter found themselves in this position, and confined to half a dozen interior sets, the film outdoes Tarkovsky's Solaris, which it recalls, in grunginess.
Country: FR/GB/GER/POL/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 113m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin
Synopsis:
A former convict finds himself floating in space outside a black hole with only his daughter for company, the unintended consequence of an experiment whereby condemned men and women crew a ship sent to harness the limitless energy to be found there.
Review:
Impossible really to qualify this as science fiction, given that nothing remotely scientific is explained to us and its events and atmosphere are more redolent of horror. Unfurling mostly in flashback, as we come to see how Monte and his daughter found themselves in this position, and confined to half a dozen interior sets, the film outdoes Tarkovsky's Solaris, which it recalls, in grunginess.
Country: FR/GB/GER/POL/US
Technical: col/1.66:1 113m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin
Synopsis:
A former convict finds himself floating in space outside a black hole with only his daughter for company, the unintended consequence of an experiment whereby condemned men and women crew a ship sent to harness the limitless energy to be found there.
Review:
Impossible really to qualify this as science fiction, given that nothing remotely scientific is explained to us and its events and atmosphere are more redolent of horror. Unfurling mostly in flashback, as we come to see how Monte and his daughter found themselves in this position, and confined to half a dozen interior sets, the film outdoes Tarkovsky's Solaris, which it recalls, in grunginess.