Natalie Portman’s bizarre performance as a music prodigy in director Brady Corbet’s highly topical film Vox Lux is on its way to Australia.
A local release date has been confirmed by the film’s Australian distributor, Madman Entertainment, who will release it on our shores on February 21, 2019.
The film has been advertised with the tag-line “A Twenty-First Century Portrait.” According to the official synopsis Portman plays a “rising pop star with a promising future” who “finds herself on the comeback trail when a scandal, personal struggles and the pitfalls of fame threaten her career.”
Vox Lux has received a mixed response from critics. Armond White from National Review described Portman’s performance as “a remarkably precise, dead-on interpretation of a Millennial monster that avoids the knife edge of campy cultural satire usually seen in backstage wallow.”
However Tom Russo from Boston Globe thought the film left viewers “wondering whether we’re watching a character study or caricature. Either way, the portrait gradually morphs from intriguing to tedious.”
Who to believe?? You can make up your own mind come February.
