High-Rise

aka: High Rise
USA 2015, 119 minutes
Dir. Ben Wheatley
Rating: [R16] Violence, drug use, sexual material, offensive language & content that may disturb
Genres: Cult, Suspense/Crime

Feat. Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss, Luke Evans, James Purefoy, Keeley Hawes, Sienna Guillory, Peter Ferdinando

“Potent and alluring in its visions of Brutalist excess”~Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

Aroview: A blackly comic, super-stylish slice of dystopia set in a retro-futurist 1975 in which life for the residents of a tower block begins to spin out of control. At times chaotic and infuriating but also frequently riveting and uniquely British. Based on the novel by J.G. Ballard.

NZ International Film Festival 2016

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4 stars (Very Good) This could be five stars some days. From JG Ballard’s 1975 novel which contains much of his tropes. Class consciousness through a 70’s lens imagines the near future. Smoking, drinking, brutal middle class imbeciles. Unsubtle but brilliant. ~bikewrench
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4 stars (Very Good) ~trauma_hound412
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3 stars (Good Enough) Always original and wonderfully satirical but the screenplay runs amok in its second half when a bit of restraint would have been the wiser option. ~Anon