Maps to the Stars (2014)
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Duration: 111 minuten
Country:
Canada / United States / France / Germany
Directed by: David Cronenberg
Stars: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska and Evan Bird
IMDb score:
6,2 (44.584)
Releasedate: 21 May 2014
Maps to the Stars plot
"Eventually stars burn out."
The Weiss family is a typical Hollywood family. Father Sanford is an analyst and coach who has made a fortune from his DIY tutorials. Mother Cristina is mainly concerned with the career of her son Benjie, 13 years old and a real child star. One of Sanford's clients is the actress Havana, who dreams of making a remake of the film her mother Clarice made famous in the 1960s. Clarice is dead, however, and Havana is haunted at night by visions of her dead mother... Benjie, who has just returned from drug addiction, and his sister Agatha, who was recently released from a sanatorium where she was being treated for criminal pyromania. for an explosive situation.
Actors and actresses
Havana Segrand
Agatha Weiss
Dr. Stafford Weiss
Benjie Weiss
Jerome Fontana
Cristina Weiss
Clarice Taggart
Cammy
Genie
Sterl Carruth
Reviews & comments
K. V.
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- 4376 messages
- 3777 votes
Brought this one once, but I thought it was a mediocre film. I thought the first hour was mediocre, luckily the second hour became more interesting.
The cast did a great job and the movie looked good too.
Too bad the story was a bit less, or didn't come out enough.
I've watched it, but I don't want to see it again.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6070 messages
- 2476 votes
An extremely oppressive film; yeyo wrote on 8/22/2014 that it seems like "all the characters are permanently in some kind of cocoon", and in my opinion those cocoons are too tight, as if nobody can relax breathing – perhaps comparable to how no "star" can ever enjoy his success and his career, because you're only as good as your next movie ? Anyway, I don't really think this is a Hollywood satire, more a film about totally isolated and convulsive people who are (indeed, sometimes literally) haunted by their own demons, and the Hollywood Hills fit that theme perfectly. Sublime acting by the entire cast: you can feel the madness in everyone, and yet they never become caricatural or even unbelievable characters, everyone keeps their humanity and their understandable motivations. A film that haunted me for a long time and actually gets better and better in my memory. Cronenberg is and remains a unique director whose films I do not always find 100% successful, but who always show me something worth considering, and I don't know many of such filmmakers at the moment.
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IH88
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- 9761 messages
- 3190 votes
“On the stairs of Death I write your name, Liberty.”
Strong film by Cronenberg. A History of Violence, The Fly, Videodrome and now Maps to the Stars, all of Cronenberg's films have a wonderfully ominous and surreal atmosphere where the violence is never far away, and where we often get to see the worst in people.
Not a cheerful fare, but usually stoneware. Maps to the Stars is a sobering, gruesome, but sometimes hilarious glimpse into the world of Hollywood. These are people who are actually no longer alive, or who no longer know what the "real" life entails, and because of upbringing, star worship, mommy issues, psychological problems and drug use all the time operate in a shadow area between life and death. With great acting from Moore, Wasikowska, Pattinson, Cusack and Gadon, among others.
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