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In Her Name Review Video — In Her Name (2022) Video Movie Review, a movie directed and written by Sarah Carter, and starring Erin Hammond, Ciera Danielle, Philippe Caland, Nyambi Nyambi, James Aaron Oliver, Sarah Carter, Jay Montalvo, Juliette Beavan, Charlie Farrell, Elena Chernyavskaya, Raquel Horsford and Imogene Elias. Plot Synopsis In Her Name‘s plot [...]

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In Her Name Review — In Her Name (2022) Film Review from the 21st Annual Tribeca Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Sarah Carter and starring Erin Hammond, Ciera Danielle, Philippe Caland, Nyambi Nyambi, James Aaron Oliver, Sarah Carter, Jay Montalvo, Juliette Beavan, Charlie Farrell, Elena Chernyavskaya, Raquel Horsford and Imogene Elias. Filmmaker [...]

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Sultry music swells as the camera swoons over a young couple in a tender nighttime embrace. The 1950s residential New York City street is carefully rain-slicked and lined with shiny classic cars: an obvious stage set. Gene Kelly might just have swung on that lamppost; Doris Day might lean out of an upstairs window to sigh at a painted moon. But the canoodling stars of Eugene Ashe’s Sundance competition title “Sylvia’s Love” are black, which is among the sole indications that this weightlessly glossy yet undeniably charming romance is a product of the 21st century. Even so, were we to find out as the credits roll that the film had actually lain undiscovered in some studio vault for five decades, aside from mild surprise that it would make Tessa Thompson quite a bit older than previously suspected, it would actually explain a lot.

More even than Declan Quinn...

As an actress, Natalie Portman has never been short of audaciousness, from her breakthrough role aged 12 as a precocious assassin in Léon: The Professional, to the role that won her the Oscar, as a masochistic ballerina in Black Swan, to her turn as Jackie Kennedy in Jackie. She builds on this repertoire of complex protagonists with Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux, in which she plays Celeste, the survivor of a brutal school shooting who becomes a pop superstar after she writes and records a heartfelt anthem for the victims. The film is a commentary on the loss of innocence, set against the backdrop of our nation’s tragic gun culture and obsession with celebrity.

Did you know Brady Corbet before this project? Were you looking to do a musically-themed movie?

I watched his film [The Childhood of a Leader] and was really impressed by his work. His writing [in Vox Lux] was so specific and great.