High-Rise (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 2, 2016
  • Originally Released: 2015
  • Label: Magnolia Home Ent

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User Ratings: 11,974
Rating: 4/5 -- Barbecued dog is the appetizer here, human flank steak the main course, with a buffet line of sociopathic consumption and apocalyptic class war in between. Full Review
Dare Daniel
Apr 5, 2019
Rating: 1/5 -- 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. Full Review
Financial Times
Dec 28, 2016
4 stars out of 5 -- HIGH-RISE sees Wheatley coming into his own as a director in complete control of his environment...
The Guardian
Mar 20, 2016
4 stars out of 5 -- While J.G. Ballard is seven years gone, and the source for this film 40 years old, it still feels alarmingly now. The future he imagined in the 1970s, with its affluenza and anger, couldn’t feel more relevant today.
Empire
Mar 14, 2016
The retro-futurist production design is gorgeously awful, the cast is awfully gorgeous, and the dystopian setting is explored with an appropriately Ballardian blend of suavity and aggression.
New York Times
May 12, 2016
3.5 stars out of 4 -- Wheatley is a smart, resourceful filmmaker who knows how to modulate his imagery.
RogerEbert.com
May 13, 2016
Playfully disturbing in a dog-eat-dog world where madness and mayhem reign supreme, High Rise is a luxurious and rich visual and emotional experience, elevating Ben Wheatley to the upper floors of the filmmaking hierarchy. Full Review
Behind The Lens
Nov 3, 2019

Product Description:

Well-to-do doctor Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston) moves into the 25th floor of an experimental high-rise apartment complex on the outskirts of London in 1975, attracted by the upper-class lifestyle promoted by its architect (Jeremy Irons). The building is secluded from the outside world and functions as its own autonomous community; in addition, it's organized by a rigid caste system, with the least wealthy residents situated on the lower floors. Laing befriends a documentary filmmaker (Luke Evans) who lives on the second floor, and soon becomes aware of the social inequities within the complex. As tensions between the tenants boil over, an all-out war erupts that divides the classes into violent tribes vying for the top floors. Ben Wheatley directed this wildly imaginative and chaotic adaptation of J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel, with Amy Jump serving as screenwriter. HIGH-RISE premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival.

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  • UPC: 876964009621
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