High Life is troubling, beautiful, horrifying, and essential four-star cinema from Claire Denis GlobeArts
if you happen to be reading this review in print , features two hands interlocking: one belonging to a space-suited adult, the other to an adorably chubby infant. A lush forest serves as the backdrop, with the hint of a lens flare in the upper-right-hand corner. It is an overtly sentimental and even hopeful visual, only mildly subverted by the tiny tag line at the bottom: “Oblivion awaits.
: Was I out of touch, or was it the children who were wrong? After a subsequent screening, it clicked. Watchingis such a brain-rearranging experience that, like the black hole it’s focused on, there is no one correct or guaranteed way to come out the other end of it. My first viewing left me emotionally gutted and sick to my stomach. My second delivered that very tinge of hope that the poster conveys. I’m not sure what my third, or fourth or fifth, might bring.
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