Be aware there are spoilers for High Life in the interview below. If there's one thing you can always count on from Claire Denis, it's that you never know what you're going to get from one of her movies. The filmmaker behind some of the most carnal, disturbing films of the 21st Century like Bastards and Trouble Every Day most recently turned toward romances with her gorgeous 2017 comedy Let the Sunshine In, and now, she's taking one of the boldest swings of her brilliant career with High Life. High Life is Denis' first fully English-…

Few storytellers exist between the lines like Claire Denis. The French filmmaker thrives in the grimy, grey areas of the human experience that make such fertile breeding ground for genre cinema, complex characters, and taboo -- a subject at the heart of her English-language debut, the subversive sci-fi drama High Life. Set on a spacecraft where former death row inmates volunteer for a suicide mission straight into a black hole, the film slips through time as they fly through space. The non-linear narrative centers on Monte (Robert Pattinson), who we first meet patching up the side of a …