Vox Lux
“A twenty-first century portrait.”
DramaMusic
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.
VIBE
A dazzling, yet deeply unsettling, journey through the dizzying heights of pop stardom and the lingering shadows of trauma. It's a visually arresting, often jarring, exploration of manufactured identity and the cost of fame.
glamorousunsettlingmelancholicintensesteadyA24 arthousestylized violencepop spectaclefametraumaidentityloss
pop stariconschool shooting1990s2000s
