HIGH LIFE
Mar 21, 2019
4 minutes
SOPHIE MONKS KAUFMAN
Directed by CLAIRE DENIS
Starring ROBERT PATTINSON, JULIETTE BINOCHE, MIA GOTH
Released 10 MAY
Usually, when describing a film, writers have access to the vocabulary that has formed around cinema in the 100 plus years since the birth of this relatively young medium. Clichés exist within storytelling and genres, meaning that there is a sense of familiarity as you sit back and sometimes strain to see originality, scanning the screen and peering between the lines for hits of freshness. In most cases, we bear witness to standard-issue machinery clanking its gears.
is the opposite of this, existing at such a cosmic remove from established cinematic grammar that one is almost aligned with the
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