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High Life
MEANRANK
57/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4402
- IMDb #5021
- Google retired #3891
- Rotten Tomatoes #2957
- Metacritic #1719
- Letterboxd #3345
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1727
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4483
- Metacritic Critics #799
- Metacritic Audience #3666
- Kinopoisk #5286
- AlloCiné #5182
- Trakt #5022
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 42, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 83. Critics average 80, everyone else 52.
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Details
- Director
- Claire Denis
- Writers
- Claire Denis, Geoff Cox, Jean-Pol Fargeau
- Released
- 26 September 2018
- Country
- France, Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $8.9M
- Box office
- $2.1M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (24) →
Awards & nominations
See all 5 →2 wins from 5 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Film Fest Gent 2018 | Best Film | High Life | Nominee |
| Film Fest Gent 2018 | Georges Delerue Award | Stuart A. Staples | Winner |
| Louis Delluc Prize 2018 | Best Film | High Life | Nominee |
| San Sebastián International Film Festival 2018 | Best Film | High Life | Nominee |
| San Sebastián International Film Festival 2018 | FIPRESCI Award | High Life | Winner |
Awards from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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5 awards — High Life
×| Georges Delerue Award | Stuart A. Staples | Winner |
| Best Film | High Life | Nominee |
| FIPRESCI Award | High Life | Winner |
| Best Film | High Life | Nominee |
| Best Film | High Life | Nominee |