High Life

R

Released Apr 5, 2019

1 hr. 53 min.

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

Adventure

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Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. They must now rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.

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Critics Consensus

High Life is as visually arresting as it is challenging, confounding, and ultimately rewarding - which is to say it's everything film fans expect from director Claire Denis.

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TJ

I immediately stopped watching after the infant nude frontal scene at the start of the movie. The director should be in prison for this, to take away a babies innocence like that is disgusting to say the least. I wouldn't recommend anyone watch this filth and I wish I had never seen it. Movie should be boycotted and directors in prison

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/07/24

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Lottie L

Terrible! Space snuff. There's a plot there, but the film makes no sense. It's weird, perverted, and unnecessarily sexual. It even shows an infants genitals at one point… you can't do that! Why does this have such a high rating? The movie ended 10 minutes ago, but my husband and I are still debating about what this film was actually about.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/18/24

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Ryan R

Really slow, drawn out, and just generally uninteresting. I don't understand how critics like movies such as this. It isn't thought-provoking at all. It's just boring.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/13/24

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Tiago S

oofff... that was a bad one

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

03/11/24

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mike n

This movie is nothing short of disgusting. Near opening scene of a child's privates served as zero relevance to the story. There is no redeemed quality in this film. I shut it off after 30 minutes. If it was the last movie on earth, I wouldn't enen use it to wipe my a$$.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

03/11/24

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Damien B

Very uncomfortable to watch.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/04/24

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Robert Pattinson

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Juliette Binoche

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André Benjamin

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Mia Goth

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Lars Eidinger

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Sophie Monks Kaufman

Little White Lies

All I can say is that it's a pleasure to have my reviewing faculties blown and my psyche splintered by this master filmmaker.

Rated: 5/5

Dec 23, 2019

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Donald Clarke

Irish Times

There is much of Tarkovsky's Solaris in the main body and the flashbacks... could be lifted straight from the same director's Stalker. High Life is, however, stuffed with Denis' characteristic philosophical derangement.

Rated: 3/5

Dec 21, 2019

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

It goes out into the universe to look in...it is first and foremost a film by Claire Denis.

May 22, 2019

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Paul Kanieski

KSQD Community Radio

Composed of equal parts mystery, thriller and speculative fiction, High Life starts off slowly but rewards patience, gradually working towards a finale which weaves elements of Interstellar and 2001: A Space Odyssey into something uniquely Claire Denis.

Jul 19, 2023

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

It may be too lofty to call High Life a microcosm of humanity; then again, it may not be. Denis seems to liken the isolation of a few people trapped on a ship hurtling through space to the entire human experience.

Rated: 4/4

Mar 3, 2022

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Taylor Baker

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Episode 37: Edge of Tomorrow / Forbidden Planet / High Life

Rated: 78/100

Oct 4, 2021

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Synopsis

Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. They must now rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.

Director: Claire Denis
Screenwriter: Claire Denis, Geoff Cox, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Pandora Filmproduktion, arte France Cinéma, A24, Andrew Lauren Productions, Arte, Alcatraz Films, BFI Film Fund, Madants
Rating: R (Disturbing Violent Content|Disturbing Sexual Content|Graphic Nudity|Language|Sexual Assault)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 5, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 11, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $1.2M

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