Vox Lux -

Vox Lux (Latin for "Light Voice") is a dark title. It suggests a voice that illuminates, but the light it casts is harsh, unforgiving, and fluorescent. It is the light of the green room, the flash of the paparazzi, the glare of the operating room. If you watch this film and feel exhausted, dirty, and unnerved—good. You have finally seen the face of modern pop without the filter of a music video. It is not pretty. But it is true.

Starring Natalie Portman in a performance of ferocious intensity, the film charts the rise of a pop star named Celeste from the ashes of a school shooting to the dizzying heights of global superstardom. But Vox Lux is not really a biography; it is a thesis on the 21st century. It is a film about trauma, spectacle, and how pop culture has evolved into a survival mechanism for a world teetering on the edge of destruction. Vox Lux

The movie features original songs written by Sia, specifically designed to sound like the high-gloss, synthetic anthems of modern radio. Vox Lux (Latin for "Light Voice") is a dark title