Robert Pattinson’s Performance Brings Tenderness to the Chilling, Dystopian ‘High Life’

French filmmaker Claire Denis is one of the unsung geniuses of worldwide cinema. Not everyone knows her name, but the movies she's made over the past three decades--like the sensuous, evocative 1999 Billy Budd adaptation Beau Travail, or 35 Shots of Rum, from 2008, a drama about makeshift families that reflects the ever changing face of France itself--are so vital and so brazenly varied that you could spend a lifetime splashing in their depths.

French filmmaker Claire Denis is one of the unsung geniuses of worldwide cinema. Not everyone knows her name, but the movies she's made over the past three decades--like the sensuous, evocative 1999 Billy Budd adaptation Beau Travail, or 35 Shots of Rum, from 2008, a drama about makeshift families that reflects the ever changing face of France itself--are so vital and so brazenly varied that you could spend a lifetime splashing in their depths.