High-Rise (2015)

Release date: 2016-03-18
Country: UK|Ireland|Belgium
Language: English
Director: Ben Wheatley
Production Co: HanWay Films, Film4, British Film Institute (BFI)
Genre: Drama, Science Fiction
Rating: 5.6/10
Length: 1h 59min

Storyline

Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.

Plot Keywords

sex standing up, male frontal nudity, male rear nudity, social decay, degradation, fellatio, orgy, rape, suicide by jumping, talking during sex, woman on top, male full frontal nudity, debauchery, tower, orgasm, bare breasts, female nudity, nudity, sex on a table, waiter

Short Review

In High-Rise the fitfully brilliant Briton Ben Wheatley, with writing partner Amy Jump, seizes what seems a perfect-fitting text -- JG Ballard's dystopian novel High-Rise -- and makes an omnishambles of it.