way, who find themselves under the watch and
experimentation of Juliette Binoche’s Dr. Dibs, a
witchy, serious and haunting on-board physician
with some interesting sexual preferences.
This kind of movie going experience is a full-
body one and totally transfixing from start to
finish, but it’s also maddeningly confounding
leaving the audience always a few steps behind
in discovering and integrating into this bleak
little micro society. I’m still not entirely sure what
it all adds up to, but it is provocative, difficult
and bleak and leaves you with a very precise
feeling of despair and aloneness — just like the
best of the space independents do.
“High Life,” an A24 release, is rated R by the
Motion Picture Association of America for
“disturbing sexual and violent content including
sexual assault, graphic nudity, and for language.”
Running time: 110 minutes. Three stars out of four.
MPAA Definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying
parent or adult guardian.