Review: Robert Pattinson takes a dark, thrilling space odyssey in 'High Life,' JustinCChang writes.
One of the first words we hear in “High Life,” Claire Denis’ brutal, beautiful and entirely astonishing new movie, is “taboo.” It’s an odd word for a man to teach his child, but these are odd times for Monte , who finds himself raising a baby girl named Willow aboard a spaceship drifting millions of miles from Earth. “Taboo” — with its suggestions of the unspeakable and forbidden, of boundaries that have never been crossed — is an apt word for the horrors that have befallen this lonely vessel.
It’s notable that the most sexually transgressive sci-fi thriller since 'Under the Skin' takes place aboard one of the least sexy spaceships ever designed.From the outset, when Monte pushes a series of corpses out of the ship and down into the impenetrable blackness below, “High Life” suavely disregards the laws of physics as well as the conventions of thriller plotting. Movies like this are supposed towith a high body count, but time here is aggressively nonlinear.
takes place aboard one of the least sexy spaceships ever designed. Denis has no use for the sterile, state-of-the-art aesthetics of so much contemporary science fiction: From outside, the ship resembles a large rectangular box, literalizing its function as a self-enclosed lab experiment; the interiors are grottily retro, all leaky pipes and beige, windowless corridors.
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