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HIGH LIFE

Claire Denis France, 2018
In the film’s final moments, I saw a void, but my students saw a flat, golden line. Where I saw a black hole, they saw a horizon. And why not? It’s worth remembering that, against all odds, the final line of the film—the answer to the question “Shall we?”—is “Yes.”
June 11, 2020
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Denis pushes bodies to their limit while sending humanity to the margins of the universe in this frustration endurance test posing as space exploration.
August 6, 2019
Ultimately, and largely thanks to the complexity of the performance that Binoche constructs, Denis manages to make a poignant plea for the expansiveness in our most elemental relationships, an urgent call for—yes, that word—love.
July 1, 2019
Uncompromising and enigmatic, High Life relinquishes nothing of the philosophical and visual force, the difficulty and seductiveness, that have made Denis’s films among the most compelling of contemporary cinema.
May 10, 2019
This is an alternately disturbing, intellectually stimulating, scary, erotic, and revolting collection of moments that you're supposed to watch, listen and react to, not necessarily process as one might a traditional linear narrative, or some kind of cinematic equation that can be unlocked like the final level of a videogame.
April 5, 2019
The New York Times
As is often the case in Denis’s movies, “High Life” vibrates with low-key erotic energy that can feel exciting, a little dangerous. 
April 4, 2019
High Life is a chilly, ruminative film, brilliant if not exactly likable. But Pattinson, the movie’s thumping heart, is superb.
April 4, 2019
Denis sidesteps the genre’s blood-curdling tensions (Alien) and atmospheric grandeur (2001: A Space Odyssey), instead focusing on beautifully hypnotic sequences that owe a clear debt to Andrei Tarkovsky’s dreamlike Solaris. High Life is less concerned with the perpetual void of space than with its impact on the human body, composed of “star stuff” but also spit, breast milk and blood.
April 3, 2019
Screen Hub
High Life is a film that deliberately overturns expectations on virtually every level.
March 12, 2019
Sex drive and death seem to merge here, as they do on a grander scale in the film’s ambiguous climax, a teetering on the edge of penetration that might be taken as consent to suicide or an invitation to consummate, having reached the age of consent. It is a vision both carnal and cosmic, sacred and profane—and there is no other filmmaker who could’ve brought us to this particular, precarious point.
March 1, 2019
In any other setting we’d call Pattinson’s character a cipher; here he’s endowed with the weight of infinity, Kubrick’s star child achieving full form.
October 2, 2018
The shock and richness of High Life are wonderfully enchanting and perplexing, and that even if much of the film seems to re-map familiar territory, it does so in unfamiliar ways; its DNA, let’s say, is substantially but subtly deviant.
September 28, 2018