High Life
Synopsis
The film follows the character of Monte a few years after the mission’s launch as he raises his daughter, Willow, in complete isolation on the empty spacecraft as it heads towards its final destination, a black hole. He fathered Willow against his will after his sperm was used to inseminate another convict in space as part of the experiment. In the process of raising her, however, he comes to experience real love for the first time in his life.
Claire Denis's first English-language feature is "an adventure beyond the solar system set in a future that seems like the present".
Official Selection Toronto International Film Festival 2018 - Gala Presentations - World premiere
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) 2019 - Deep Focus
Details
- Year
- 2018
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 110 mins
- Director
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Claire Denis
- Producer
- Laurence Clerc, Oliver Dungey, Christoph Friedel, D.J. Gugenheim, Andrew Lauren, Klaudia Smeija, Claudia Steffen, Olivier Théry-Lapiney
- Executive Producer
- Julia Balaeskoul Nusseibeh, Isabel Davis
- Editor
- Guy Lecorne
- Screenwriter
- Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau, Geoff Cox, Nick Laird (consultant)
- Director of Photography
- Yorick Le Saux, Tomasz Naumick
- Production Designer
- François-Renaud Labarthe, Mela Melak, Jagna Dobesz
- Composer
- Original Music and Sound Design: Stuart Staples, Tindersticks
- Principal cast
- Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth, Lars Eidinger
- Film Image
- © 2018 Alcatraz Films, Pandora Filmproduktion, The Apocalypse Films, Madants
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
UK, Germany, France, Poland coproduction
An Alcatraz Films (FR), Pandora Filmproduktion (DE), The Apocalypse Films Company (UK), BFI Film Fund (UK), Madants (PL), Andrew Lauren Productions (US) film in co-production with Arte France Cinéma (FR)
The Apocalypse Films Company
10 HeathcroftHampstead Way
London
NW11 7HH
Sales Company
Wild Bunch (World sales excluding US)
65 rue de Dunkerque75009 Paris
FRANCE
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) (US sales)
2000 Avenue of the StarsLos Angeles
CA 90067
USA
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