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After surviving a school shooting, a 13-year-old Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) and her sister (Stacy Martin) pen a song to process her grief that ends up turning the shy Celeste into a star. Eighteen years later, a 31-year-old Celeste (Natalie Portman) is attempting to launch a new tour in her hometown when she learns terrorists dressed like her carried out a mass shooting in Croatia, bringing her once again into the heart of a traumatic event. Written and directed by Brady Corbet. Narrated by Willem Dafoe. Original music by Sia.
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Vox Lux (2018)
114 min
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.