Part satire of superstardom and part an attempt to grapple with tragedy, loss and ego, Brady Corbet's latest directorial outing Vox Lux was greeted with mixed reviews at festivals. And we can't imagine it's a film that is easy to squeeze into a trailer. But the first attempt is here...
Vox Lux begins in 1999 when teenage sisters Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) and Eleanor (Stacy Martin) survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe – while also catapulting Celeste to stardom.
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Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Abbott are also in the cast for the film, due out in limited US release on 7 December before widening the following week. Vox Lux screened at the London Film Festival, but there's no word on a UK release just yet.
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