“If you start coloring outside of the lines, even a little bit, everyone comes down on it. Playing with structure so as to omit a second act, Corbet found himself at odds with some of his own backers. “It’s a populist movie, in my opinion.” Certainly, some of his stylistic choices were more in line with the avant-garde. “For me, the film is extremely straightforward,” he says. While the film could be considered intellectual or subversive, to its creator, it is something else entirely. In large part, Vox Lux is Corbet’s response to an “Orwellian” world, reflecting his misgivings about the content we consume, the forces behind it, and the standards we set for ourselves. But for most people, it’s just easier to make a more conventional kind of movie.” “ Christine Vachon was born a punk, so she certainly doesn’t give a f*ck, and I love that about her. You don’t meet any allies in the process of making a movie like this, the exception being my crew, Killer Films, who produced the movie,” the director shares. “The last six years of my life have taken a lot out of me, physically and mentally,” he says, and this is so precisely because of the films he feels he needs to make, films that he believes “literally nobody wants.” “Nobody asks for them, and it’s very arduous, because every single person that you encounter has to be convinced. Speaking with Deadline last month about his audacious undertaking, Corbet was a bit exhausted. “Essentially, having made my first film did not make making my second film any easier at all.” “The reason that I feel that way is that I made one of them in Europe, and I made one of them in America, and are completely different systems,” he explains. Anxiously contemplative, Corbet feels as though Vox Lux wasn’t a second film at all, but rather a second first film, built from the ground up. A rumination on the complexities of our times, the film follows Celeste, an ordinary teenager who survives a school shooting in 1999, and goes on to become a pop star, achieving the status of an icon. Positioning Natalie Portman as a Dark Horse in the Oscar race, as a contender for Best Supporting Actress, the drama embodies Corbet’s ideals, as a demanding piece of work not easily contained within a log line. Breaking Baz At London Film Festival: Todd Haynes Trumps Tabloid Tale With Gripping Melodrama 'May December' Starring Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore & Hot New Star Charles Melton
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