Vox Lux
(2018)Celeste (Natalie Portman) is a pop star on the rise, whose career takes off against the backdrop of a national tragedy. Spanning 18 years, this music drama traces important cultural moments through her eyes. Jude Law and Jennifer Ehle co-star, while Sia and the legendary Scott Walker collaborate on the score. In competition at Venice Film Festival 2018.
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Directed by Brady Corbet ('The Childhood of a Leader')
Starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Matt Servitto
Written by Brady Corbet
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Corbet's high-caliber melodrama combines food for thought with sense-blitzing spectacle. Full Review
All-pervasive millennial unease – the sense the world no longer works as it used to, or should – is Vox Lux’s plangent root-position chord, and the film offers no easy cure... Full Review
Vox Lux paints a sharp, shellacked portrait of a ghost in the celebrity machine. Full Review
Vox Lux is a powerful, haunting film in part because Portman is a powerful, haunting presence — you can’t turn away from her, even if you occasionally want to. Full Review
It’s part satire, part social comment, all fragmented and downright inconclusive. Full Review
Vox Lux comes to share Celeste's vapidity rather than reflect it, but it says a lot about Corbet's possibilities that even in the film's most frustrating moments, his daring and imagination shine through. Full Review
Portman's performance as a strung-out pop star is appropriately hard-bitten and manic. Full Review
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