High Life is the first English-language feature from French writer/director Claire Denis, which she co-wrote with her long-time collaborators Jean-Pol Fargeau and Geoff Cox, and it’s no more accessible than her previous foreign-language features, but brilliant nonetheless. It’s a wonderfully stylized challenge that defies the traditional typifications of the genre, taking the viewer down a cerebral sci-fi path that has only been trampled on by contemplative cinema and art film mainstays like Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey.