French filmmaker Claire Denis, one of the great
living directors, has not lost her edge as she’s
coasted into her 70s. Her latest film, “High
Life,” which debuted last fall at the Toronto
International Film Festival and is now making it
to theaters, is as stimulating and challenging as
anything she made in the 90s. Although here,
she’s taken us not to post-Colonial West Africa
or modern day working class France, but to
the outer reaches of space to drift around an
ominous black hole with Robert Pattinson and
a baby, daring us to piece together how they
ended up in such a precarious situation.
The only thing that’s immediately clear is that
they are alone on this spaceship, which is
hardly the most advanced-looking rig. Instead
it seems straight out of a 1970s film, and it is
slowly and surely shutting down. Designed by
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