I watched 'Maps to the
Stars' at a little cinema in Perpignan and was stunned. This is a
really good film that seems to have made very little impact –
perhaps it hasn't even been released in the UK yet, though why an
english-language film should be released first in France escapes me.
It is a very dark
account of celebrity culture, with horrible Hollywood folk managing
their careers and each other against a background of incest,
self-mutilation, drug abuse and recovery. There is a bit of
consolation misery going on – the rich and famous have such
miserable lives, all that wealth and fame doesn't make them happy
after all. But it does bring out the weirdness of a world in which
one's fortune really can be at the same time huge but also dependent
on a very fragile kind of reputation capital – and one that's
reproduced by a process that is both very much about personal
relationships and also complex and mysterious to the participants.
The acting is great,
the script and the filming really good too.
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