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Ben Wheatley | United Kingdom | 2015 | 119 min | English | d.s.
High-Rise, based on the novel by J.G. Ballard (whose Crash was filmed earlier by David Cronenberg), is set in a retro-futurist version of the 1970s. Doctor Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) moves to a luxury high-rise apartment building that forms an autonomous community, complete with supermarket, swimming pool and modern lifts. He makes friends with his attractive neighbour Charlotte (Sienna Miller) and the building’s architect, Mr Royal (Jeremy Irons), who lives at the top. He gradually discovers the complex class relations between the floors. Things are brewing in the ‘lower’ floors and this results in a rebellion against the elite and their exclusive cocktail parties (that usually end in orgies), after which the inhabitants group themselves into murderous gangs, with bloody, violent and apocalyptic consequences. The meticulous and exuberant art direction ensures a beautifully stylised, dystopic and occasionally hysterical parable by the director of Kill List (IFFR 2012) and Sightseers (IFFR 2013).
Place: CINEMA 2
Date: 8 April 2016
Time: 21:30
Duration: 2:00
Place: CINEMA 2
Date: 9 April 2016
Time: 16:15
Duration: 1:45
Place: CINEMA 2
Date: 10 April 2016
Time: 21:30
Duration: 2:00
Year in
Festival
2016
Director
Ben Wheatley
Camera
Laurie Rose
Cast
Tom Hiddleston
Jeremy Irons
Elisabeth Moss
Sienna Miller
Luke Evans
James Purefoy
Keeley Hawes
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Length
119 min
Music
Clint Mansell
Producer
Jeremy Thomas
Production Company
Recorded Picture Company
Production Design
Mark Tildesley
Sales
HanWay Films
Scenario
Amy Jump
based on the novel by J.G. Ballard
Sound Design
Year of Production
2015
Filmmaker and animator Ben WHEATLEY (1972, UK) started his career in commercials and made several television series for the BBC and Channel 4. Together with his wife Amy Jump, he founded Mr and Mrs Wheatley, a production company for directing, editing and writing. Down Terrace (2009) was Wheatley’s debut feature, followed by his second feature Kill List in 2011. High-Rise (2015) is his fifth film. His work has received numerous international nominations and prizes.
Filmography
(selection) The Wrong Door (2008, TV series), Modern Toss (2004-2006, TV series), Down Terrace (2009), Kill List (2011), Sightseers (2012), A Field in England (2013), High-Rise (2015)