Film Review - Vox Lux
December 12, 2018
Brady Corbet was once an actor. While he didn’t enjoy a distinguished career, he did manage to work with an impressive roster of independent and European filmmakers, appearing in Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia,” Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games” remake, Gregg Araki’s “Mysterious Skin,” and Ruben Ostlund’s “Force Majeure.” Corbet moved behind the camera for 2015’s little-seen “The Childhood of a Leader,” and now graduates to a higher profile release in “Vox Lux,” which channels all those artistic influences into a strange little character piece that has no beginning and no end, merely existing for 110 minutes of unfiltered behavior masquerading as a study of callousness. It’s broadly acted and predictably enigmatic, with Corbet trying to make a movie that’s been done before, and by more adventurous helmers. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com
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