100 WORD FILM REVIEWS / High Life

High Life: A

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The theme of this sexually explicit horror film of a father/daughter relationship explains with sparse dialogue the silent depth of parental love. Robert Pattinson plays the father, whose sexual and emotional dark journey ends with the craft’s suicide destination inside a black hole. The sexuality is graphic, yet the horror lies in the crew’s lack of escape from their nature. Juliette Binoche, whose nudity is up close and personal, is stellar as the doctor at the center of this doomed experiment. This is movie is dark, weird, yet successfully coherent. The hopeless yet redeeming ending is its saving grace.

Jennifer Lemming, Staff Writer

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