{"id":13899,"date":"2018-10-13T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T12:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=13899"},"modified":"2018-10-13T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-13T12:11:59","slug":"vox-lux-review-round-up-natalie-portman-is-a-powerful-haunting-presence-in-this-grandly-ambitious-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=13899","title":{"rendered":"Vox Lux review round-up: Natalie Portman is &#039;a powerful, haunting presence&#039; in this &#039;grandly ambitious&#039; satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article918_slide.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog_hollywood\/article918_slide.jpg\" \/>In 2010, Natalie Portman opened the Venice Film Festival as a tormented ballerina in Black Swan &#8211; a role which earned her an Oscar. She is back this time with Vox Lux, as a brattish pop star with a troubled past. Portman\u2019s character, Celeste, played as a 14-year-old girl by Raffey Cassidy, has her life transformed by a school shooting that leaves her wounded and psychologically scarred. A song Celeste plays at a televised memorial for the dead propels her to fame, condemning the sweet young girl to grow up into an infantilised pop princess, managed by Jude Law.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of its world premiere, Portman said Vox Lux was \u201ca portrait and a reflection of our society and this sort of intersection of pop culture and violence and the spectacle that we equate between the two\u201d. Writer-director Brady Corbet, who won prizes in Venice in 2015 for his debut The Childhood of a Leader, said Portman\u2019s character was \u201creally not designed to be a monster at all\u201d. With songs composed by Australian singer-songwriter Sia, Vox Lux is one of 21 films vying for the Golden Lion which will be awarded in Venice on 8 September.<br \/>\nGlass is scheduled to release in North American theaters on 18 January, 2019.<\/p>\n<div><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_92055\"  width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  data-origwidth=\"1140\" data-origheight=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=1&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><!-- InstaWidget --><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/instawidget.net\/v\/user\/bestofportman\" id=\"link-30cd6974de4528b106f3ad76ee5dc5bf2832d695aaa7f6be1ae14203b716613a\">@bestofportman<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?button_hashtag=voxlux&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"twitter-hashtag-button\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet #voxlux<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, Natalie Portman opened the Venice Film Festival as a tormented ballerina in Black Swan &#8211; a role which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}