Ben Wheatley’s clever adaptation of JG Ballard’s ‘unfilmable’ book offers a creepy, future-retro vision of a society riven by wealth“For all its inconveniences, Laing was satisfied with life in the high-rise…” This screen adaptation of JG Ballard’s prescient 1975 novel about disintegrating life in a “luxury” tower block has been a long time coming.
Comment on High-Rise review – black humour and horror
Mark Kermode, Observer film critic, Guardian Unlimited: Film
Sun, 03/20/2016 - 2:00am
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