And my English is not good, but it’s maybe better than my Russian. And then I was asked by a producer if I would like to do a film in English, and I said, “Only if I have a good reason for it, because otherwise it’s not my own language.” I thought maybe in space it would be reasonable, people speaking English or Russian. All these things, little by little, months after months, years after years, became a sort of idea. It was touching, you know? I felt something there. I remember a drawing of an incubator protecting the baby from radiation. Because of traveling time in space and human life is not very long, it will be necessary to reproduce ourselves if we wanted to travel far. At that time I was reading Stephen Hawking and I was imagining procreation in space. I had this idea in mind of a man alone in space in a ship far away from the solar system so there is no hope to return and the crew is dead. How did High Life initially get started for you?
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Just after the movie released in select cities, Denis spoke with THR about how Stephen Hawking inspired the project, her reunion with actress Binoche and why she doesn’t consider High Life to be science fiction. The resulting film is an unlikely study of sexual frustration, prison labor and existential loneliness. Because the journey to the black hole is so long, the ship contains a fertility scientist (Juliette Binoche) who injects the sperm of the ship’s men into its women so children can carry on the experiment when the crew dies. The film opens with Monte (Robert Pattinson) as the sole survivor of a prison crew that volunteered for the space mission as an alternative to spending life in prison. Though High Life’s premise - a space crew seeks an alternative energy source for Earth within a black hole - suggests a conventional, impossible journey-type narrative, Denis’ film populates its ship with idiosyncratic characters for such a story. Still, the orange light ended up being a creative, rather than scientific, decision: She and her production designer Olafur Eliasson invented the orange light because “we saw it as this color that was destroying the other color” of the film’s red ship, she said.ĭenis’ film is forward-thinking in other ways, most distinctly in how it riffs on science fiction.
Denis isn’t surprised by the similarity between her black hole and the astronomers’: She spent a long time working with French physicist-philosopher Aurélien Barrau to ensure accuracy in preproduction and on set.“I called the astrophysicist this morning and I told him, ‘It’s not a coincidence because you have been studying, we have been studying,’” she told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview.
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