High Life

2018
6.5
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Title: High Life

Original Title: High Life

Year: 2018

Info

Release Dates

  • UK: May 10 2019
  • United States: April 12 2019

Plot

Monte and Willow are a father and a daughter who live in a spaceship outer the solar system. Monte is a tough and severe man who regrets having the child because it reminds the time when he was defeated by the desire above his discipline. However, Willow doesn't know that she was birth by insemination in a experiment with a prisoner called Boyse. In the beginning their relationship is not the best, but with the time Willow grows up, Mont changes his mind and will have a new feeling about her daughter. A feeling that will change him forever.

Director Claire Denis presented this film starring Robert Pattinson ('Good Time'), Juliette Binoche ('The english patient') and Mia Goth ('A cure for wellness') which won the FIPRESCI prize.

Cast

Director:

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Videos

'High Life' Teaser Trailer 1:49

'High Life' Teaser Trailer

October 13 2018

Photos

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Trivia

The film's plot

Claire Denis: "The film is about sexuality, not sex. Sensuality, not pornography. Sexuality is about fluids. As soon as sexuality stirs within us, we know it's all about fluids - blood, sperm, etc. I thought if I wanted that fluid subtext to work, we had to reduce the sex act to masturbation. I forbade myself any naked scenes. No erect cocks, no gaping pussies. We did it another way - High Life speaks only of desire and of fluids."

'High' and 'Life'

'High' stands for outer space and 'Life' for the life Juliette Binoches character wants to create. But it's above all a word that comes from Africa where she grew up and spent her childhood: Africans often refer to white life as 'high life'.

Premiere at Toronto

The world premiere at Toronto Film Festival has caused multiple walkouts because of how graphically disturbing and provocative the film was. Despite the audience reaction, the film was well received by the critic.

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