2018 Directed by Brady Corbet
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, Celeste is a mother to a teenage daughter of her own and is struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.
Natalie Portman Jude Law Raffey Cassidy Stacy Martin Jennifer Ehle Willem Dafoe Maria Dizzia Christopher Abbott Logan Riley Bruner Meg Gibson Daniel London Sahr Ngaujah Micheál Richardson Matt Servitto Leslie Silva Allison Winn Max Born Nikki Brower Fred Hechinger Sasha Eden Dejay Roestenberg Antonio Ortiz Angel Dillemuth Ben Rezendes Christopher Dylan White Lya Yanne Alexa Marcigliano David Cale Anna Mikami Show All…
Christine Vachon Robert Salerno Cassandra Kulukundis Andrew Lauren Michel Litvak Gary Michael Walters Svetlana Metkina Jonathan Oakes David Hinojosa D.J. Gugenheim Brian Young David Litvak Raffaello Vignoli
Голос люкс, Сияен глас, Vox Lux: El precio de la fama, ווקס לוקס, ポップスター, ხმა ლუქსი, 복스 럭스, Vox Lux: O Preço da Fama, Вокс люкс, ว็อกซ์ ลักซ์ เกิดมาเพื่อร้องเพลง, Вокс Люкс, 光之声, 逆光天后
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Venezia 75
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Brazil16
Netherlands16
Poland
UK15
Germany12
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rest of the world: *through tears* p-please... you can’t just do every performance with a stupid accent
natalie portman: noo yawk
“it was not her grief; it was theirs. no longer merely her experience, they reclaimed it as their own”
tragedy gave her wisdom, and stardom took it away. or at least changed it, morphed it into something else. the loss of innocence in exchange of fame, becoming the key cog in a perfectly oiled machine. the purpose of the machine is distraction: manufacturing happiness for a world that wants to ignore the ugliness and pain. at one point a young celeste pops a painkiller and hops on a stairmaster, the pop music her headphones blares into her ears drowning out the bleak news channel droning on in the background
a lot of this is realistically kind of messy, but i…
LOVE IT! One of my faves of the year.
Brady is such a talent. And cinematographer Lol Crawley should be nominated. Beautiful images.
Watched at AMC Sunset 5.
i REFUSE to believe the final concert would not include a costume change for every song
Sorta underwhelming? Not really, though. I have no idea. The visuals and editing were the best thing about it, seriously stunning looking film. My low amount of enthusiasm to talk about it pretty much sums up why I didn’t LOVE it. There was a good 40 minutes of nothingness in the middle of it when Natalie Portman was introduced that took me out and almost brought me back but not quite. Everyone keeps calling this a movie where you love it or you hate it and I am aggressively in the middle.
EVERYONE AFRAID TO GIVE THIS POP TERRORISM MASTERPIECE FIVE STARS IS A COWARD. VOX LUX IS THE BEST FILM OF THE YEAR AND NATALIE PORTMAN'S AUTOTUNED VOICE WILL SNATCH THE GRAMMY FROM BRADLEY COOPER'S ACHY BREAKY HANDS!
“my god... ellie, i think i’ve done something terrible”
the perfect modern american portrait: tragedy warping pop culture and vice versa, killing the person and birthing the persona... this is one of the most overlooked mainstream films of the last decade and i’m prepared to die on that hill
This will undoubtedly appeal to some, but not to me. Vox Lux sets out to interrogate the connection, if any, between pop music and terrorism. Yeah, you read that right. Pop music and...terrorism.
I'm not adverse to this concept on principle. In fact, I think this question has the potential to give way to something really interesting, hell, even entertaining. Unfortunately, the movie is so tonally inconsistent and shoddily written, presenting half-baked ideas without fully committing to any of them, that I don't think it's worth trying to piece together Corbet's most recent depiction of megalomania.
Fans of Brady Corbet just love to bring up the fact that he's an American from Scottsdale, Arizona. He's been lauded for his European…
AFI 2018: film #3
“this is your show”
completely striking, i held my breath the entire time. there are sequences here that STUN, either in a positive or negative way, depending on the person watching. it often drips with sickly humor and the way the camera moves and the way scenes cut from one to the next are almost too slick to be believed. and while the appeal for most is natalie portman, raffey cassidy is alarmingly good and gives one of the most surprising performances i’ve seen in a while
this is probably a love it or hate it kind of movie, but i was really invested. this isn’t the pop star epic you’re expecting, but if given a chance, it’s a totally new kind of experience. and for me, that’s a beautiful thing
