The company will next screen that movie at Austin’s Fantastic Fest, with an awards push planned not only for the foreign-language category but for its complex prosthetic makeup. Iranian-born filmmaker Ali Abbasi’s imaginative fairy tale was a surprise hit out of that festival, and later became the Swedish Oscar submission, screening at Telluride and TIFF this fall. The company is already campaigning for “Border,” the so-called “troll sex” movie that won the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes in May. Regardless of how the “Vox Lux” campaign comes together, it will make for another unconventional awards movie on Neon’s docket this season. Brady Corbet, Natalie Portman, and Jude Law attend a screening for “Vox Lux” Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock That queasy hook scared off some buyers from the outset, with some wondering how the movie could even be released if a shooting took place around its opening date. “Vox Lux” is also bound to generate further conversations this fall around its opening sequence, a high school shooting that propels Celeste into sudden fame when the teen performs at a televised memorial service. Of course, that could be a blessing in disguise - whipping up controversy could mean free publicity. Last seen in Yorgos Lanthimos’ similarly disturbing and otherworldly “The Killing of a Sacred Deer,” Cassidy herself may be an awards candidate if the movie gains significant traction among younger voters, though it will continue to alienate audiences with more conservative sensibilities. The surprising newcomer remains onscreen in the second half to play her own daughter, in tense scenes with Portman’s character that underscore an ongoing cycle of estrangement. And they’re gauging positive TIFF reaction to Julianne Moore’s performance in Sebastian Leilo’s English language remake “Gloria Bell.” (So far they’re keeping it in 2019.)Īs for “Vox Lux,” it remains unclear in which category Neon will submit the actress, since Portman doesn’t even surface in the movie until the halfway mark the teen version of her character is played by Raffey Cassidy. detective in Karyn Kusama’s “Destroyer” and newcomer KiKi Layne in Barry Jenkins’ “If Beale Street Could Talk.” A24, which won one of its first Oscars for Brie Larson in “Room” in 2015, is not expected to be a big player this fall - but the company is planning a best actress campaign for Toni Collette in horror sensation “Hereditary,” which garnered $78 million worldwide earlier this year. Other contenders include two from Annapurna Pictures: Nicole Kidman in a similarly disturbing turn as a no-nonsense L.A. This year, however, the field is already crowded, with buzz centering on Lady Gaga for Warner Bros.’ “A Star is Born,” Olivia Colman in Fox Searchlight entry “The Favourite” (the Venice and Telluride hit skipped TIFF and will open New York Film Festival), and Melissa McCarthy as a literary forger in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”, also from Searchlight. If Portman remains in the conversation throughout the season, the campaign will harken back to Sony Pictures Classics’ last-minute TIFF deal for “Still Alice” in 2014, which ultimately scored Julianne Moore a Best Actress Oscar. Portman also did all her own singing for the role. As Celeste, Portman’s dance moves were choreographed by her husband Benjamin Millepied, and the pair re-teamed for the new role, which was modeled on several pop stars’ moves. “Vox Lux” finds the actress returning to similar territory on several fronts: The climax of the movie once again revolves around a dramatic stage performance under bright lights and flamboyant costumes. The movie, which begins in the late ‘90s and careens through 9/11 as the pop star’s loss of innocence comes to embody the national mood, suggests aspects of the unsettling allegorical storytelling found in Lars Von Trier’s movies (Corbet, originally an actor, appeared in Von Trier’s “Melancholia”), while Portman’s unnerving turn has generated instant recollections of her ambitious role as a disturbed ballerina in “Black Swan,” which scored her a Best Actress win seven years ago.
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