Vox Lux (2018) on Netflix
Thirteen-year-old Celeste survives a shooting at her Staten Island school. While she recovers, she and her older sister Eleanor write songs, and one sung at a memorial service becomes a hit.
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Plot summary
At thirteen, Celeste is a student at a school in New Brighton, Staten Island, when a boy opens fire there and she becomes one of the few survivors. While she recovers from her injuries she begins writing music with her older sister Eleanor, and at a memorial event led by Father Cliff she performs a song of theirs, Wrapped Up. It becomes a hit, a manager signs her, and by April 2000 she is in New York City recording an EP. Her songs reach radio stations and demand grows for a first music video, while nights out with Eleanor cut into her time in the studio.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Vox Lux (2018)
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- Rooney Mara joined the cast of Vox Lux in September 2016, when Sia was hired to write original songs for it. By January 2018 Mara was out and Natalie Portman had replaced her, with Jude Law and Stacy Martin joining in between.
- Willem Dafoe said his narration for Vox Lux was a last-minute decision: writer-director Brady Corbet had recorded another voice, was not happy with it, and at the last minute used Dafoe as the film's narrator and framing device.
- Writer-director Brady Corbet said making Vox Lux was hard because "nobody asked for it", and that he did not make any money from the film.
