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Lux Æterna

2019

Gaspar Noé

Béatrice Dalle, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman ...

6.0

2,486

Drama. Thriller Two actresses, Béatrice Dalle and Charlotte Gainsbourg, are on a film set telling stories about witches – but that’s not all. Lux Æterna is also an essay on cinema, the love of film, and on-set hysterics.

	Author	Review
United States	William Repass Slant	"If the film-within-the-film is a vapid fetishization of women’s martyrdom 'Lux Æterna' is a willful exercise in repulsing its own audience (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Let’s be clear: 'Lux Æterna' is a glorified Saint Laurent commercial. That’s the tweet-length analysis. But there’s more to it than that.	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"[It] functions as a savvy indictment of the commercial industry and a wry comedy about filmmaking’s collaborative nature."	POS
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"It's nowhere near as compelling as his last feature (...) Nevertheless, this cheeky film-within-a-short-film follows a similar trajectory to the last (...) In other words, it's all business as per Noe usual"	NEU
United States	Steve Pond The Wrap	"Is it enjoyable to watch? Hell no (...) But you have to hand it to Noe, because it is kind of mesmerizing in its perverse single-mindedness (...) The fact that “Lux Aeterna” is only 50 minutes long makes it more endurable."	POS
United States	Ben Kenigsberg rogerebert.com	"This larky goof, even now that it's been unveiled and hyped, manages to preserve a bit of mystery."	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Noé’s mockumentary about a movie shoot going horribly wrong goes … horribly wrong (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG

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