High Life (2018)
High Life (2018)
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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. Claire Denis---USA/France/UK---2018---113 mins

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Director Claire Denis's cerebral science fiction opus, with moments of elliptical, frequently mumbled, dialog separated by large sections of no dialog at all, recalls the ponderous sci-fi efforts of Kubrick and Tarkovsky. We are introduced to a group of convicted criminals, each apparently scheduled for execution, choosing, as an alternative, to take part in a one-way mission to a distant black hole (and no one returns from a black hole). Dibs (Juliet Binoche), a physician and also a felon, is an obviously conflicted authority figure, dispensing medicines, monitoring vitals, and, as far as possible, keeping these cooped-up criminals in line. The brooding Monte (Robert Pattinson) is a central figure in this group of misfits, and, through a process both artificial and natural (but really not that natural), he unwittingly fathers a daughter with one of his fellow voyagers. By the end--this mission takes years--the population on board this death ship is reduced to Monte and his daughter (played as a teenager by relative newcomer Jessie Ross), and the warm, trusting relationship between these two castaways is one of the signal charms of this film. This is not "Star Trek." It is in no way a thriller. And the visual effects, while often beautiful, are hardly state-of-the-art. But it is a thought-provoking film by a gifted filmmaker.

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