Maps to the Stars (2014)

Directed by

David Cronenberg

Genre

drama film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Germany, France, United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 52m

Rated

R

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 1,153 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A washed-up actress and a child star navigate the dark side of Hollywood. The film is a satire about the entertainment industry's corrosive effects on the people in it.

satiricaldarkly comicbleakunsettlingcerebralmelancholictense

What happens

Maps to the Stars is a 2014 satirical black comedy film directed by David Cronenberg, and starring Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams, Sarah Gadon, and Evan Bird. The screenplay was written by Bruce Wagner, who had written a novel entitled Dead Stars based on the Maps to the Stars script, after initial plans for making the film with Cronenberg fell through. This is the second consecutive collaboration between Cronenberg and Pattinson (after Cosmopolis) and marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Prospero Pictures, who previously collaborated on A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis. This is also the third Cronenberg film made with Canadian actress Sarah Gadon. It is the first Cronenberg film shot partially in the United States, although most of it was shot, like his other films, in his native city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The film concerns the plight of a child star and a washed-up actress while commenting on the entertainment industry's relationship with Western civilization as a whole. The film premiered in competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2014. Moore won the festival's Best Actress Award. Following its premiere at Cannes, the film had a theatrical release in France on May 21, 2014. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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