Vox Lux

A twenty-first century portrait.
Vox Lux (2018)
Timing: 1:54 (114 min)

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Budget
$7 000 000
Revenue
$1 444 547
Director
Scenario
Producer
Christine Vachon, Robert Salerno, Andrew Lauren, Michel Litvak, Gary Michael Walters, Svetlana Metkina, David Hinojosa, D.J. Gugenheim, Brian Young, David Litvak
Operator
Lol Crawley
Composer
Artist
Sam Lisenco
Audition
Cassandra Kulukundis
Editing
Matthew Hannam, Raffaello Vignoli
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Short description

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 catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.

What's left behind the scenes

  • Rooney Mara was initially cast in the lead role, but the project fell behind schedule, and Mara left. The role was then given to Natalie Portman.
  • The dressing room where Celeste has a nervous breakdown before the concert is the same one as in Darren Aronofsky's drama "Black Swan" (2010), where the main character, also played by Natalie Portman, also experiences a breakdown.
  • Natalie Portman filmed all of her scenes in just 10 days.
  • The choreography was staged by Benjamin Millepied, who is Natalie Portman's husband.
  • The beginning of the film features several references to Columbine High School (Jefferson County, Colorado). The film's action also takes place in 1999. The image of a student helping another student climb down from a third-floor window recreates a famous photograph of the school. As in real life, in the film the villain intended to detonate an explosive device in a car, and he also – as in real life – failed.
  • Initially, Rooney Mara was cast in the lead role, but work on the project fell behind schedule, and Mara left the production. Her role was given to Natalie Portman.
  • The dressing room where Celeste has a nervous breakdown before the concert is the same one used in Darren Aronofsky's drama 'Black Swan' (2010), where the main character, also played by Natalie Portman, also suffers a breakdown.
  • The choreography was created by Benjamin Millepied, who is Natalie Portman's husband.

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