Review of High Life (2019) by Josh Larsen for LarsenOnFilm — 02 May 2019

Anyone who’s seen Beau Travail knows that Denis is a master of color. Here she uses the ship’s lighting system to shift between cool, medical blues and warm, arousing reds. And in the “garden,” a lush conservatory space where the crew grows their food, the deep greens evoke a primordial Eden, a place where nakedness carried no shame.

The goings-on in High Life—including two instances of sexual assault—are like a crash landing into the Fall.