Vox Lux
After a Columbine-like high school shooting, survivor Celeste rises to national fame with a stirring performance at a night-time vigil. The film follows her subsequent travels through the world of commercial pop stardom. Stars Natalie Portman and Jude Law.
- Director:
- Brady Corbet ('The Childhood of a Leader')
- Writer:
- Brady Corbet
- Cast:
- Natalie PortmanJude LawJennifer EhleRaffey CassidyStacy MartinMatt Servitto
Reviews & comments
Vox
pressPortman's performance as a strung-out pop star is appropriately hard-bitten and manic.
Variety
pressVox Lux paints a sharp, shellacked portrait of a ghost in the celebrity machine.
The Telegraph
pressAll-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...
The Guardian
pressIt’s part satire, part social comment, all fragmented and downright inconclusive.
IndieWire
pressVox 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.
Hollywood Reporter
pressCorbet's high-caliber melodrama combines food for thought with sense-blitzing spectacle.
BBC
pressVox 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.
Vox
pressPortman's performance as a strung-out pop star is appropriately hard-bitten and manic.
Variety
pressVox Lux paints a sharp, shellacked portrait of a ghost in the celebrity machine.
The Telegraph
pressAll-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...
The Guardian
pressIt’s part satire, part social comment, all fragmented and downright inconclusive.
IndieWire
pressVox 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.
Hollywood Reporter
pressCorbet's high-caliber melodrama combines food for thought with sense-blitzing spectacle.
BBC
pressVox 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.
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