Durga Chew-Bose writes about Robert Pattinson in #HighLife for A24
A24 has posted a note entitled “First Impressions: High Life” written by Durga Chew-Bose. It’s an interesting insight into father-daughter relationships in films, Wim Wenders and Claire Denis. Here’s an extract, but you should head on over to A24 to read the full essay:
Monte and Willow’s life is incremental. Hermetic and isolated. One tiny step at a time, one lullaby, one sleep. Like the three notes of a familiar tune, reprising over and over, Monte and Willow’s life is eerie-anticipant. Somehow amateurish. They are the only ones.
What is it about fathers and daughters that feels predisposed to imagery of what’s left? Or of what’s been left behind. Of winging it while on the road. What is it about a father and daughter that so easily resembles two souls on the lam? Seeking and lost in a lovely way, but not free.
