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Cast
- Robert PattinsonMonte
- Juliette BinocheDibs
- André 3000Tcherny
- Mia GothBoyse
- Agata BuzekNansen
- Lars EidingerChandra
- Claire TranMink
- Ewan MitchellEttore
- Gloria ObianyoElektra
- Victor BanerjeeIndian Professor
Recommendations
- 100
The Guardian
With an achievement of this calibre it’s hard to resist hyperbole: High Life contains the single greatest one-person sex scene in the history of cinema. - 100
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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. - 100
The Film Stage
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. - 91
IndieWire
High Life is fixated on the hypnotic rhythms of oblivion, and the human desires it brings to the surface. - 88
Slant Magazine
The film asks down-and-dirty questions about what really resides beneath thousands of years of human progress, a savage and haunting antidote to the high-minded idealism of movies like Christopher Nolan's Interstellar and Ridley Scott's The Martian. - 83
The A.V. Club
In terms of mood, cosmetics, and rhythm, it’s a worthy addition to the great filmmaker’s canon. - 80
Variety
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. - 75
The Playlist
High Life feels longer than it is, and is occasionally so squirrely that it becomes off-putting. But in spite of the aforementioned traceable connections, it’s a true original — sometimes strange, sometimes scary, sometimes kinky.
