With the arrival of Lady Gaga’s star turn, Natalie Portman’s Vox Lux and Elisabeth Moss’s Her Smell, the murky world of female pop stardom finally gets immortalised on screen
Looking at this season’s awards contenders, it is clear quite a few female actors have had the same idea: portray a pop star, one who is about to be chewed up by the music industry. Preferably in a movie whose title sounds like a Nirvana song.
Take Vox Lux, which sees Natalie Portman chasing a second Oscar as a jaded pop chameleon. Burdened by scandal, past trauma, celebrity and extreme eye makeup, but buoyed by some electro-pop stompers (courtesy of Sia), she is an emblematic 21st-century woman on the edge and off the rails. Portman gives it her all.
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