Robert Pattinson #HighLife secures UK distributor for early 2019 release

 

Exclusively from Screen Daily:

High Life, Claire Denis’ sci-fi drama starring Robert Pattinson, has been picked up for UK distribution by Thunderbird Releasing.

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The deal was negotiated by Kevin Chan, acquisitions manager of Thunderbird Releasing, and Olivier Barbier from sales agent Wild Bunch. The film has been slated for a UK release in early 2019.

“It’s a hugely ambitious and daring project – and Denis is a director we’ve long admired,” commented Chan on the pick-up.

“[Thunderbird] showed both constant enthusiasm and motivation about the project since we presented it to them – this deal inscribes itself into an ongoing business relationship between our two companies,” added Barbier on the deal.

Thunderbird Releasing already have a dedicated High Life page and below is their synopsis:

Deep space. Beyond our solar system. Monte and his infant daughter Willow live together aboard a spacecraft, in complete isolation. A solitary man, whose strict self-discipline is a protection against desire – his own and that of others – Monte fathered the girl against his will. His sperm was used to inseminate Boyse, the young woman who gave birth to her. They were members of a crew of prisoners: space convicts, death row inmates. Guinea pigs sent on a mission to the black hole closest to Earth. Now only Monte and Willow remain. And Monte is changed. Through his daughter, for the first time, he experiences the birth of an all-powerful love. Willow grows, becoming a young girl, then a young woman. Together, alone, father and daughter approach their destination – the black hole in which all time and space cease to exist.

That’s UK done, now the rest of us just have to wait and by rest of us I mean you Australia.  You can check other distributors at our High Life film page

UPDATED: 5 June 2018

Claire Denis’ sci-fi film, High Life, starring Robert Pattinson, gets a Feb 2019 release here in the UK. A dead cert, then, for LFF?

— Martyn Conterio (@MartynConterio) June 4, 2018