Jessie Ross as Willow and Robert Pattinson as Monte in a spaceship in High Life
The Big Picture In the final moments of Claire Denis’s introspective sci-fi drama High Life, Robert Pattinson’s criminal-turned-astronaut-turned-dad Monte and his teenage daughter, Willow , come across a spaceship identical to the one they are in. The only difference is the number on the ship’s carcass, which indicates that it left Earth after Monte’s mission.
Release Date April 12, 2019 Director Claire Denis Cast Robert Pattinson , Juliette Binoche , Andre Benjamin , Mia Goth , Lars Eidinger , Agata Buzek Runtime 113 minutes Main Genre Sci-Fi Writers Claire Denis , Jean-Pol Fargeau , Geoff Cox , Nick Laird Studio A24 Expand What Is 'High Life' About? High Life begins with Monte running around the spaceship, performing various maintenance tasks by himself while trying to take care of Willow .
The birth of Willow is both preceded and followed by the “death” of most of the ship’s crew. The quotation marks, here, are used because, due to the cryogenic process, it is unclear whether those that died aboard the ship actually passed or were merely put in stasis until they could be healed of their injuries or diseases. Still, two extremely important deaths do take place before Monte is left alone with Willow.
Monte knows that, in order to keep life going in the spaceship — to make human life abound just like the vegetation from the ever-growing garden — he would have to violate one of humanity’s most essential taboos. And, unlike his decision to join the black hole mission, this is a choice he would have to make knowingly. Before disappearing into the darkness, Dibs informs Monte of Willow’s parentage, making sure that he will never be able to claim ignorance.
As a matter of fact, as pointed out by Matt Zoller Seitz of RogertEbert.com, the movie has a lot more in common with sci-fi projects of the 1970s, from the American-made 2001: A Space Odyssey to the Soviet classic Solaris. Denis is less concerned with the wonders of humanity making its mark on the stars and more with the horrors that we might encounter. These horrors are not of the Lovecraftian type, nor of the face-hugging variety.
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