High-Rise Reviews Master Post

Well that's an awful lot of work. 😸

NOUVELLE CUISINE WAS PEOPLE, SO WAS THE TEPPANYAKI, AND I WOULDN'T TRUST THAT PANCETTA EITHER

It is. But I'm a cinefile who loves reading reviews. So it's all in a day's work 😉.

Sea como sea, y con el permiso de Amama, dejo la mejor para el final: High-Rise de Ben Wheatley. Ben es un tipo sencillo. Con sus barbas y sus pelos. Bajito y ancho. Se ríe mucho en la rueda de prensa, es afable. De gracioso contraste junto a Tom Hiddleston, alto, elegante, estiloso. Pues estos dos caballeros británicos, uno más que otro, se han sacado de la manga una adaptación ballardiana de la que ya podría aprender mucha de la ciencia ficción del momento. High-Rise es una novela escrita en los años 70 por J.G. Ballard, uno de los autores de ciencia ficción más importantes y un escritor que supo adelantarse a su tiempo con estremecedora exactitud, al menos cinco minutos en el futuro. Miró a la vuelta de la esquina con su caleidoscopio y volvió para contarnos que si seguimos así nos vamos a ir todos a la mierda. Ahora no hay que ser muy listo para adivinar esto, pero entonces, y con tanto detalle, sí.
Add the one from Spain to the list of fans.
The first line says, "With Amama's permission, I have left the best for last: High Rise by Ben Wheatley."
Then she compares Ben Wheatley with Tom. "Wheatley is a simple guy. With his hair and beard. Short and chubby. He laughs very much during the press conference and is affable. He is a funny contrast to Tom Hiddleston, who is tall, elegant, with style. These two British men, one more than the other, have produced a Ballardian adaptation which current science fiction can learn from. High Rise is a 1970's novel written by Ballard, one of the most important science fiction authors and a writer who progress into the future with exactitude. at least 5 minutes into the future. He looked at the corner with his kaleidoscope and returned to warn us that if we continue on the same path, we will all go to sh*t. Now we don't have to be very smart to guess this, but then we will with so much detail.


There's a kind of freedom in being completely screwed, because you know things can't get worse.😂

Thanks for the translate. Added.

good grief girl, that is a mega post of some serious research and one of love. 😀 thank you xxx I'll have fun reading some of them posts.

High Rise is released in the UK in March, which means Tom has created a good window to promote H/Rise and ISTL and it wont get lost in the Crimson Peak world

These are not full-length reviews. But I gathered tweet reponses from the Fantastic Film Festival because reading them was quite fun. I gathere only tweets from people related to film industry, journalism, or writing. There are also tweets from Sitges film festival -RPC official tweet account is retweeting them. But it would be some chore to collect them.


Jeremy Kirk ‏(@JeremyKKirk)

: High-Rise will be an acquired taste for many. Social breakdown & apartment paranoia w/ a real "*beep* you" attitude. Loved it. #FantasticFest

: Hearing a lot of negative reaction about certain dots not being connected in High-Rise. Wheatley has always shown you the dots and forced you to connect them for yourself. I think, like Kill List, a lot of people will find their way to loving High-Rise.

: High-Rise round 2, and you wish you were as excited as I am right now. Sorry to rub it in, but holy damn this movie. #FantasticFest @cclegit


Graham Goring ‏(@GrahamGoring)

: High Rise is unlike anything I've ever seen before - incredible. Also 20% of my #FantasticFest has now contained Tom Hiddleston. Weird.


David Bruckner (‏@bruckmachina)

: Ben Wheatley's HIGHRISE certainly lingers a day later. #FantasticFest


Kirk Reimer ‏(@KreepyKirk)

:#HighRise is the most accomplished film by #BenWheatly! New favorite director! #FantasticFest @cclegit


Ed Travis (‏@Ed_Travis)

: #HIGH-RISE: Fav Ben Wheatley film by country mile. Cast, prod design, score, thematic stuff all on point. Real raw. #FantasticFest @cclegit.

: Luke Evans upped his game substantially in HIGH-RISE. Always liked him but this is on another level. Whole cast is spectacular. @cclegit


Tyler Mager ‏(@tylermager)

: HIGH-RISE is incredible and dark as all hell. I loved it. #FantasticFest @cclegit

: The more I talk and think about HIGH-RISE the more I think it might be a masterpiece. #FantasticFest @cclegit


Matt Mercer ‏(@mercershark)

: HIGH-RISE is a gorgeous, tense, and funny allegory full of amazing moments and performances. Great movie. #FantasticFest


Adam Egypt Mortimer ‏(@adamegypt)

: High Rise: an amazing film which felt to me like Miley's We Can't Stop video by way of Buñuel's Exterminating Angel #FantasticFest


BH ‏(@hedofthebloom)

: HIGH-RISE was phenomenal. Performances. Music. Direction. Production design. Use of various animal meats. Filled with debauchery.

: I've liked every film @mr_wheatley has made, since seeing Down Terrace at LAFF years ago. High-Rise continues that. A master of his craft.


antonio quintero ‏(@tenchi24)

: High Rise like a great *beep* the system punk rock song #FantasticFest


SFReviews.net/SFF18 (‏@SFReviewsnet)

: #FantasticFest @HighRise_movie pretty much nailed it. Somewhere Ballard is smiling in approval of @mr_wheatley. @cclegit #dystopian



Alex R. Johnson (‏@lachima)

: There's bad bonkers, there's good bonkers and then there's HIGH RISE bonkers. I dug it. #FantasticFest


Rafael Antonio Ruiz ((@RafAntonioRuiz)

: HIGH-RISE is the 70's John Boorman movie u never knew u wanted & Tom Hiddleston dances SloMo w/stewardesses. #FantasticFest #everyonewins


Eric Vespe (‏@EricVespe)

: I adored High-Rise. I see why it loses people, but holy *beep* is it unhinged. @twhiddleston and @TheRealLukevans are brilliant in it.


Russ Fischer ‏(@russfischer)

: HIGH-RISE is bonkers, hiding a strong sense of control under social chaos. Watching this movie is like being at the center of a riot.

: HIGH-RISE, second viewing, because it's crazy enough to warrant a revisit.


Douglas Wicker ‏(@douglaswicker)

: HIGH-RISE - @mr_wheatley delivers a solid social satire. Hiddleston & Irons kill. Perfect @iamclintmansell score. #FantasticFest @cclegit


Peter S. Hall ‏(@PeterSHall)

: Realllly dug HIGH-RISE. Deliciously dry British satire. Great performances. Luke Evans has great energy and command. Hiddleston at his best.


Michael Haffner ‏(@MPHaffner)

: I was transfixed by @HighRise_movie - a masterful satire about not knowing when the party should end made with Kubrick-like precision.


Evan Saathoff ‏(@Sam_Strange)

: High-Rise is pretty hilarious. Society crumbles mostly because it kind of wanted to anyway.


Jay Rosenkrantz ‏(@DCkrantz)

: HIGH-RISE from Ben Wheatley and a host of other mad geniuses is the animal waiting inside all of us. Brilliant, hilarious. #FantasticFest


Brad Henderson ‏(@BradFHenderson)

: HIGH-RISE was a flipping blast. It's like Cronenberg/Kubrick dropped a ton of acid and read the book and then made the film the next day.


Scott Weinberg ‏(@scottEweinberg)

: High-Rise celebrates the dry absurdity of the novel with a fluid fever dream structure over a traditional format. I dug it. #FantasticFest


jkpyle ‏(@jkpyle)

: High Rise is completely epic. A dead-on faithful adaptation. It's flaws are Ballard's flaws. And they're glorious. #FantasticFest @cclegit


Devin Faraci ‏(@devincf)

: There's a lot of Ken Russell in HIGH-RISE as well. Hiddleston is great. Editing is a brilliant frenzy. #FantasticFest

: I am so high on the movies after HIGH-RISE.

: HIGH-RISE is a savage satirical masterpiece. Fellini's SNOWPIERCER


Matthew Lensch (‏@mdlensch)

: HIGH-RISE takes the cake for most divisive, difficult film of #FantasticFest. A bitter sky-high screed @cclegit

: HIGH-RISE channels Cronenberg, Russell, and Kubrick in equal measure. Re-watch feels almost necessary #FantasticFest

Thank you so much for putting these together.


I've also read a great deal of tweets about HR whenever it finished screening in each festival. I posted this in one of the thread but now I don't remember where I've posted it. So posting it again here, it's the reactions after Fantastic Fest.
https://cclegit.com/o/54

I found this review interesting. It's written by a serious Ballard fan.

http://www.ballardian.com/towards-year-zero-ben-wheatleys-high-rise