"What do you know about cruelty?"
I love science-fiction. At it's best it serves as a vessel to push human experiences to the extreme. To explore our darkest thoughts and desires. Which is exactly what Claire Denis, uncompromisingly, confronts her viewers with throughout High Life. While touching on human philosophy from Plato's simple cave allegory to Hawking radiation and the firewall paradox.
Filled to the brim with incredible cinematography, quite an achievement considering the small spaces the characters inhabit. Featuring…