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Released
2018 · FILM

High Life

A desperate father and his young daughter must outwit a sinister ship’s doctor and unravel a deadly mystery aboard a doomed deep‑space mission, racing against time to survive as they hurtle toward an inevitable black‑hole annihilation.

“Oblivion Awaits.”

Directed by
Claire Denis
Written by
Claire Denis, Jean Pol Fargeau
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
113 min
DramaSci-FiThriller

Synopsis

Monte and his daughter are the last survivors of a doomed and perilous mission to deep space. The rest of the crew—composed of death-row inmates under the command of a doctor with hidden and malevolent intentions—has disappeared. As the mystery surrounding the events aboard the ship is gradually uncovered, father and daughter must depend on each other to survive as they travel toward the inevitable destruction of a black hole.

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A crew of 43+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Guy LecorneShot by Yorick Le SauxScored by Stuart StaplesDesigned by Jagna Dobesz

Box Office

2018 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$2.1M

Budget$8.9M
Worldwide gross$2.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • High Life - Bella Vitait

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ProductionA24

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