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"The Beauty of the $5,000 film, apart from the acting edginess, great score, humor, pathos and bathroom bathos, is the fact that it got made. To modify a Frank Zappa line that he had taken from Varese, the modern day artist refuses to die; and Yomtoob never let little things like money or the film industry come between her and her vision."
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Montreal Gazette Reviews High Life





"A solid fest item... a razor-sharp miniature, capturing the precise moment when prolonged adolescence surrenders to sober adulthood. Performances, language, and technical/design aspects are perfectly honed....certainly bodes well for the future of director Lila Yomtoob and her collaborators."
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Lila Interviewed on sfist.com
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"Lila Yomtoob's High Life‚ is powerful yet subtle. I couldn't get it out of my mind. A few of the film's perfectly realized moments colored my perception for weeks."
-Bruce Fletcher
Director of Programming
San Francisco Independent Film Festival


"[Yomtoob's] directing and improvisatory work with the actors is first rate."
 -Scott Elliot
Director, "Map of the World"
Artistic Director, Roundabout Theater, NYC


"[High Life‚] reminded us of what independent filmmaking was like in the age before Indiewood."
-www.sfist.com