High Life review – orgasmic brilliance in deepest space with Robert Pattinson

This shocking and amazing sci-fi drama directed by Claire Denis follows a group of voyaging astronauts who switch their attention from black holes to sexIn 2001, the French film-maker Claire Denis performed a full vivisection of the vampire film with Trouble Every Day, a philosophical, ambiguous take on the usual tropes of horror.

She rendered the building blocks of an often schematic genre frightening and alien through novel formal techniques.

Instead of lurking monsters jumping out to spook the audience, the camera often sneaked up on its subjects, while her narrative resisted convention at every turn in pursuit of loftier ideas about existence and transformation.

The average Dracula fan might have thought they had wandered into a parallel dimension.Seventeen years and six features later, and everything old is new again.

Denis has turned her sights on sci-fi, reconfiguring its familiar components to create a startlingly fresh engagement with the

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