What's impressive here from the outset is the cast: Elizabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne (in a minor role, but this supermodel-turned-actress still gets second billing!), Dan Stephens, Eric Stoltz, Amber Heard, and many other fine young actr(esses) I am not familiar with, and do well. The caliber is distinguishing, with this mix of actors that are upcoming-with-a-name, that are looking for presumably more real acting projects, and with older, now less seen actor, like Stoltz. So that's all a clue...
These actors all deliver with camera work that is worthy, in presenting the tensions the film explores. Altogether, there are sections where time leaps, but the narrative presentation moves at a constant pace and the story is impressively told in that manner, I found. I liked the film for these elements.
If I had to comment on the film's subject matter of the pop-Starlet turmoil, it's not really that interesting to me. Why her? Why not?, is the question next begged. So, it's OK, and I don't mind spending some time here, but the subject isn't rip-roaring for me (it's also a subject that was covered in the Natalie Portman-lead Vox Lux; so maybe exploration of roles prominent for women? at a guess, or consideration for both movies' respective raison d'etre). Time passed reasonably well for me watching this, and I credit the elements I have mentioned that make this film reasonably good.
Watch for interest in the cast, and the choices of camera work within the narrative presentation, as worthiest. A good little movie to have watched.
These actors all deliver with camera work that is worthy, in presenting the tensions the film explores. Altogether, there are sections where time leaps, but the narrative presentation moves at a constant pace and the story is impressively told in that manner, I found. I liked the film for these elements.
If I had to comment on the film's subject matter of the pop-Starlet turmoil, it's not really that interesting to me. Why her? Why not?, is the question next begged. So, it's OK, and I don't mind spending some time here, but the subject isn't rip-roaring for me (it's also a subject that was covered in the Natalie Portman-lead Vox Lux; so maybe exploration of roles prominent for women? at a guess, or consideration for both movies' respective raison d'etre). Time passed reasonably well for me watching this, and I credit the elements I have mentioned that make this film reasonably good.
Watch for interest in the cast, and the choices of camera work within the narrative presentation, as worthiest. A good little movie to have watched.