(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 04 - 'High Life' has an acidic, disturbing, morbid taste as already anticipated by the first sequence in which an astronaut, Monte (Robert Pattinson), tries to repair his spacecraft from the outside, while it is connected in intercom with his few months old baby who yells into his helmet. A daughter who is not far away, but close to him in a spaceship without chrome and sliding doors, drifting in the solar system and animated only by human instincts. We enter on tiptoe and quite dazed in this work by Claire Denis, who has been in theaters since August 6 with Movie Inspired, and has just been nominated Critics Film by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI). Now this ship in the space of 'High Life', which is certainly reminiscent of that of Solaris and is just as hallucinogenic as that of Tarkowsky's film, has a crew composed of a group of prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment who has commuted the penalty in an eternal navigation in space towards a creepy black hole. And this in search of alternative energy resources and new forms of reproduction useful for the Earth.
But on this ship of the damned, the most damned is Dr. Dibs (Juliette Binoche), a scientist obsessed with reproductive experiments, a sort of queen bee who forced her prisoners to collect their sperm, with the most humiliating of methods, for her improbable experiments aimed at re-populating a lifeless humanity. (HANDLE).
High Life, a spaceship-prison to nowhere
2020-08-04T13:31:30.828Z
'High Life' has an acidic, disturbing, morbid taste as already anticipated by the first sequence in which an astronaut, Monte (Robert Pattinson), tries to repair his spacecraft from the outside, while he is connected in intercom with his few daughter months that g ... (ANSA)
