Extremely long-term anticipation thread for Claire Denis, Zadie Smith and Olafur Eliasson's Sci-Fi film, High Life

There were walkouts at my relatively full showing during the attempted rape scene which then made me feel especially self-conscious sitting there in the dark watching it.

so long as you stayed dressed

what is zadie smiths involvement in this?

she left over "creative differences"

https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/high-life-claire-denis-zadie-smith-left-robert-pattinson-1202009125/

nice

there were a couple of insanely bad scenes in this (j binoche in the sex box...rofl ) but overall it was pretty and fun to think about

my mom who i saw it with kept asking ‘why don’t they have [consensual] sex?’ not sure if it was ever explicitly addressed but id assumed jb was drugging them. felt ~meaningful that she was both the one who bore most guilt/committed the worst crime and was also most invested in the scientific mission

lmao

Denis also noted that Smith was intent on having the film’s central characters return to Earth after being tricked into joining an ill-fated space mission. “Nothing against her, but she wanted the people of the ship to — she wanted them to return to Earth,” the filmmaker said. “‘Going home,’ she kept telling me. I said, ‘What the fuck do you mean, going home?’ There is no one alive there, you know?”

lol, also it's hard to judge in retrospect but I think High Life is a much better and more memorable title than A New Life

“She was beautiful and half from the Caribbean, and I thought yes! I was impressed by that.”

She’s from Willesden

they are equally terrible.

I liked this a lot. Very strange and creepy rhythm to the whole thing. Binoche looks demonic skulking about the ship while everyone else is passed out. The ending was quite beautiful.

it's not reactions to the sex i'm dreading ... it's people saying the following: "that was COMPLETELY POINTLESS!"

called this wrong: not nearly as many walkouts as the beach bum and the ones we did get were over the sex after all. lobby vibe afterwards was more "...huh" than exasperated

i liked it more as it went along but did fight sleep for a few stretches. however i was delighted from the beginning by the loving use of code page 437 (or something v like it) for the computer interfaces: my kind of retro

also loved binoche's hair

Finally got around to this now that its on amazon prime, thought it was ok but had a very hard time not switching it off during juliette binoche's scene in the dildo box, one of the silliest sex scenes this side of The Room

Technically impressive--the sound design is excellent, and I love the junkiness of their vessel, particularly in the exterior shots--but I fidgeted through much of the running time and ultimately didn't get a whole lot out of it. The fuckbox was just Clooney's dildo bicycle thing from Burn After Reading, only not meant to be funny.

Yea this was a letdown even though Pattinson was good

I’ve missed some of his more acclaimed work of recent years (Cosmopolis, Good Time) but this is definitely his best performance that I’ve seen.

"you don't have an engine in your ass!"

Haha, I love that. I also loved this film.