Sit back and enjoy …

Rob playing the guitar/piano/singing – absolutely beautiful.  Happy Sunday all 🙂

I tweeted about this earlier this morning.  Here’s a little more information. It’s good to see this film gaining more financial support.

From Arte France:

“The selection committee of ARTE France Cinema, held November 27, 2015, decided to support three new projects: “High Life” by Claire Denis, “A Gentle Creature” by Sergei Loznitsa”

The press release:

“HIGH LIFE (TITRE PROVISOIRE) DE CLAIRE DENIS ALCATRAZ FILMS (FRANCE), PANDORA FILM (ALLEMAGNE), APOCALYPSE FILM (GRANDE-BRETAGNE) Premier long métrage en anglais de Claire Denis, High Life est un projet ambitieux de science-fiction relatant l’odyssée d’un équipage au-delà de notre système solaire. Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette et Mia Goth (révélée dans Nymphomaniac Volume II de Lars von Trier) feront partie de l’expédition. Le scénario est cosigné par Claire Denis et par son scénariste habituel Jean-Paul Fargeau, avec la collaboration du couple de romanciers anglais Zadie Smith et Nick Laird. Le projet bénéficie également de la participation de l’astrophysicien Aurélien Barrau, et de l’artiste contemporain danois Olafur Eliasson. Suart Staples et The Tindersticks composeront la musique originale. “

Google translate:

“HIGH LIFE ( PROVISIONAL ) CLAIRE DENIS ALCATRAZ FILMS ( FRANCE ) , PANDORA FILM ( GERMANY ) FILM REVELATION ( GREAT BRITAIN ) First feature film in English by Claire Denis , High Life is an ambitious science fiction chronicling the odyssey of a crew beyond our solar system. Robert Pattinson, Patricia Arquette and Mia Goth ( revealed in Nymphomaniac Volume II Lars von Trier ) will be part of the expedition. the screenplay is co-written by Claire Denis and his usual screenwriter John Paul Fargeau , with the collaboration of the couple of English novelists Zadie Smith and Nick Laird . the project also benefits from the participation of the astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau , and the Danish artist Olafur Eliasson contemporary . Stuart Staples and The Tindersticks compose the original music. “

That’s interesting about The Tindersticks.  If you want to hear their sound visit their website here or their official Facebook.

High Life is a coproduction Alcazar Films (France), Pandora Film (Germany) and Apocalypse Films (UK).

And from Arnaud Grellier’s (media journalist with Satellifax (paid subscription)) twitter:

Via sa filiale cinéma, @ARTEfr va coproduire “High Life”, film de SF de Claire Denis, avec Robert Pattinson et Patricia Arquette

— Arnaud Grellier (@arnofax) December 7, 2015

Translated from French by Bing

“Through its film subsidiary, @ARTEfr will co-produce “High Life”, SF de Claire Denis film, with Robert Pattinson and Patricia Arquette”

From CineEuropa:

“The last selection committee of 2015 from Arte France Cinéma (led by Olivier Père) chose to engage in co-production and pre-sales on four projects. Among them stands High Life of Claire Denis, produced by France (Alcatraz Films) with Germany (Pandora) and the UK(Apocalypse), Wild Bunch driving international sales.

Science fiction project on the odyssey of a crew beyond our solar system (screenplay co-written by the director with his usual collaborator Jean-Pol Fargeau and torque composed by English novelists Zadie Smith and Irish Northern Nick Laird), High Life will have the casting Robert Pattinson (Cosmopolis  [+], Maps to the Stars  [+], The Childhood of a Leader  [+]), Patricia Arquette (Oscar and Golden Globe in 2015 for Best Supporting Actress for Boyhood) and Mia Goth (The Survivalist [+], Nymphomaniac – Volume 2 [+]). This first feature film in English by Claire Denis will also benefit from the participation of the astrophysicist Aurélien Barrau, the Danish contemporary artist OlafurEliasson, and original music composed by Stuart Staples and Tindersticks.

This will be the 12 ^th along the filmmaker who was selected six times at the Venice Film Festival (in competition with No Fear, No Die in 1990, The intruder  [+] in 2004 and White Material  [+] in 2009 in Cinema del Presente in 1999 with Nice work, to Controcorrente in 2002 with Friday night  [+], and out of competition in 2008 with 35 Shots of Rum  [+]), four times at Cannes (in competition with Chocolate in 1988, out of competition with Trouble Every Day in 2001 and in Un Certain Regard with I Can not Sleep and The bastards  [+] in 1994 and 2013) and won a Golden Leopard in Locarno in 1996 with Nénette et Boni.”

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I tweeted about this on 1 December 2015.

Looks like High Life has more funding perhaps “Claire Denis et Volker Schlöndorff … ” https://t.co/NnJmRTTE0D via @lefilmfrancais

— Robert Pattinson AU (@RPAustralia) December 1, 2015

Remember back in October I posted about some funding for the film.  Well this is now in addition to that funding.

According to CineEuropa:

“At the German-French Film Meeting, the funding committee greenlit an amount of €849,000 for four German-French co-productions. The projects that are being supported by the mini-traité include Rückkehr nach Montauk by Volker Schlöndorff, High Life by Claire Denis, Die Sanfte by Sergei Loznitsa and Diamond Island by Davy Chou.”

We get a little more information from the FFA  (thanks to @Sallyvg):

“Furthermore, the Commission supports with 319,000 euros, the project HIGH LIFE by Claire Denis (35 RUM) with “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson in the lead role. The co-produced by Pandora Film science fiction drama revolves around a prisoner who is participating in a dangerous space mission to escape his death sentence.

Production funding

HIGH LIFE
Director: Claire Denis Producer D: Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH, Cologne (47%) Promotion D: 160,000 Euro Producer Q: Alcatraz Films, Paris (37%) Promotion Q: 159.000 Euro producer UK: The Apocalypse Films

For those wondering about The Apocalypse Films, this is Producer Oliver Dungey’s company.  You may recall The Film Stage quoted Oliver as saying:

“I am delighted that Claire has been tempted to cross the channel and make a film in English; she is one of the greats of contemporary cinema and she’s assembled a quite extraordinary team to make exactly the kind of ambitious film that audiences cherish – completely original, genuinely pushing the boundaries of art and science and, above all, extremely entertaining.”

One step closer I guess.

Nothing better…

I tweeted a link to Kyle Buchanan’s Vulture article on “100 Women Director’s Hollywood Should Be Hiring” but thought I’d share what was actually said:

“Claire Denis
A year ago, I might have left Denis off this list: Though her films, likeTrouble Every Day, Beau Travail, and White Material, mark this French director as a titan of world cinema, I didn’t think she had any interest in going mainstream. And then, over the past year, Denis set Zadie Smith to write a sci-fi film and Robert Pattinson to star in it. If this is what it looks like when Denis is ready to play ball, I can’t wait to see what kind of curve she puts on her pitch.”

Denis is a “titan of world cinema” and she wants to work with Rob.  Says it all really.