“Vox Lux”, a sharp but restrained drama Buch and directed by actor Brady Corbet, is about a teenage girl named Celeste from Staten Island, who barely survives a horrific act of gun roughness that finishs others, sings a seriously kitsch song for the memorial service and makes the success of this performance a career in pop music. (The film has the appropriate subtitle “Ein Porträt des 21.Natalie Portman plays Celeste as a cynical and tough mature, in the second half of the film, when she stages a comeback after making the audience-Extinction-dann-Reha.
In the first half, which records Celeste’s restless introduction to the Superstar, she is played by Raffey Cassidy, who returns in the second to play Celeste’s own teenage daughter Albertine — a beautiful symmetry, especially when the mature Celeste wonders that the behavior of the young Albertine at this age reflects her own, which she literally does.
Although the film is always calm and intense, it never reaches the heights of its stunning opening sequence again. It seems intentional – if you are catapulted to fame by a single spectacular event all that is suitable is disappointment. Corbet’s style is often heavy-handed, even “geliehen”, but generally convincing, as He explores the factory process of turning the young Celeste into a Star (with Jude Law as the unnamed Manager), and then the most unpredictable process of rehabilitating Celeste’s mature public Image.
Celeste’s fascinating flaws, including the cruel treatment of her older sister Eleanor (Stacy Martin), all caused or compounded by her initial trauma and the whirlwind lifestyle that followed. We sympathize with her, admire her, and tease her to much the same degree, with Portman giving a Gusto-complete performance that seems inspired by the rotten-mouth rap character she played twice on “Saturday Night Live.”