High-rise

R$ 82,90

Sinopse

Coming in March 2016 from acclaimed director Ben Wheatley, a major motion picture adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s compelling and unnerving tale of what happens when life in a luxury apartment building descends into chaos, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss.‘Later, as he sat on his balcony eating the dog, Dr Robert Laing reflected on the unusual events that had taken place within this huge apartment building during the previous three months.’Within the walls of a high-tech forty-storey high-rise, the residents are hell-bent on an orgy of sex and destruction, answering to primal urges that their utopian surroundings can’t satisfy. The high-rise is a would-be paradise turned dystopia, ruled by intimidation and violence, and, as the residents organize themselves for war, floor against floor, no one wants it to stop …

Participantes

Autor: J. G. Ballard

Autor

J. G. BALLARD

J. G. Ballard nasceu em 1930, em Xangai, China. Depois do ataque a Pearl Harbor, foi mandado com sua família para um campo de prisioneiros. Voltou à Inglaterra em 1946 e relatou sua experiência no romance autobiográfico Império do sol, levado ao cinema por Steven Spielberg. Estudou medicina e foi piloto da RAF no Canadá. Publicou seu primeiro conto em 1956. Dono de uma vasta e premiada obra, seu primeiro romance, The drowned world (1962), foi considerado um divisor de águas na ficção científica.