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
Flicks, Amanda Jane Robinson
flicksIf the second half of Vox Lux had lived up to the first, it could have been something exceptional. Early on, the film’s narrator states Celeste was born “in America”, no state or city specified. Structured around three tragedies—a school shooting, 9/11, and a 2017 terrorist attack in Croatia—Vox Lux is an essentially American story.
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.
Flicks, Amanda Jane Robinson
flicksIf the second half of Vox Lux had lived up to the first, it could have been something exceptional. Early on, the film’s narrator states Celeste was born “in America”, no state or city specified. Structured around three tragedies—a school shooting, 9/11, and a 2017 terrorist attack in Croatia—Vox Lux is an essentially American story.
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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