2018 · sci-fi · drama
High Life
Directed by Claire Denis1h 53m2018
Monte and his daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to deep space. The crew—death-row inmates led by a doctor with sinister motives—has vanished. As the mystery of what happened onboard the ship is unraveled, father and daughter must rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Our read: High Life (2018) reads as a heavy, slow-burn, inventive sci-fi · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, slow-burn, measured sci-fi / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- slow-burn
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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