'High Life' review: Robert Pattinson is a Death Row inmate sent into space on a suicide mission
by Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
Apr 10, 2019
3 minutes
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The films of Claire Denis rarely stray from the longing of strangers in a strange land, to borrow a 1961 sci-fi book title, whether she's dealing with French colonialists in West Africa, or West Africans emigres in Paris, or regions of no known geography. These are matters of the heart, and frontiers of intimacy fraught with taboo.
"Taboo" is one of the first words spoken in Claire Denis' singular, meticulous, confounding "High Life." Robert Pattinson's character says it
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