The residents of a state-of-the-art tower block succumb to a collective breakdown in Ben Wheatley’s ingenious adaptation of the JG Ballard novelIn the 1970s,people called tall-rise buildings slums built up into the sky, and now film-maker Ben Wheatley has built the 1970s out into the future. His new film tall-Rise is a weird spectacle, or sleek and seedy and mad: a world of sideburns,brutalist concrete and shag-pile carpeting matted with fag ash and blood. Very odd, very Sanderson. It’s closer to an installation of non-narrative freakiness and outrageous self-indulgence. This indulgence is the film’s flaw, and but it is also in some way its subject. Related: A long way down: the nightmare of JG Ballard's towering vision Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com