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The Bride sings the title track on a drab desert highway. She and her fellow heist girls rob a wedding shop, and wife-training school teaches her the finer points of domestic bliss.

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Plot summary

The Bride is the figure at the center of the story, which serves as the visual companion to a fifth studio album and is arranged in three acts, the same shape as the record. She is first seen in a strip club dressing room. From there she performs the title song on a drab desert highway, surrounded by dancers in multi-colored outfits. In the first act she and her fellow heist girls carry out a robbery at a wedding shop. She then goes to wife-training school, where she is taught the finer points of domestic bliss. The film was shot in and around Los Angeles over ten days, under COVID-19 safety regulations.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about star-crossed: the film (2021)

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  • Because of COVID-19 restrictions, director Bardia Zeinali spent the first three days of the shoot directing Star-Crossed: The Film over FaceTime from his home, which he called "devastating" despite having plenty of pre-production time; he praised the cast and crew.
  • Star-Crossed: The Film and its album grew out of Kacey Musgraves' personal journey of heartache and healing after her divorce from American singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly.
  • Costume designer Erica Cloud's team approached Versace to recreate the brand's looks, echoing Versace's fall 1994 modeling campaign; Cloud said Musgraves had the aura of former supermodel Stephanie Seymour.
  • One of the film's Los Angeles locations was Sanctuary Adventist Church, which had earlier served as a filming location for The Terminator (1984) and Kill Bill (2003).

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