This “act” is also launched by a terrorist attack, one in which the attackers wear masks resembling the ones made famous in one of Celeste’s videos. In the second act, “Regenesis 2017,” Celeste-now played by Natalie Portman-has a teen-age daughter, Albertine (also played by Cassidy), as a result of that one-night stand. Somehow (in the era before social media) it goes viral, Celeste becomes a teen pop sensation, and, despite her religious background, begins to live it up, culminating in a night in a hotel with a rough-hewn hard rocker. She recovers, and in the movie’s second section, “Act I: Genesis 2000-2001,” she and her older sister, Ellie (played by Stacy Martin), write a song, which Celeste performs at a church service. The story is divided into three parts in the first, labelled “Prelude 1999,” Celeste Montgomery (Raffey Cassidy), thirteen going on fourteen, a middle-school student in New Brighton, Staten Island, is gravely wounded in a school shooting. Yet the subject of the film is the burden of a young singer’s celebrity, and the incidental subordination of matters of life and death to the story of a rising and falling star renders the film’s heightened tone absurd, unintentionally comedic-all the more so in that the issue that Corbet approaches with the greatest seriousness is fame itself.
In a way, Corbet is dealing with great issues and making a major display of taking them very seriously. Corbet’s direction is sober, sombre, earnest, restrained the film is heavy with allusions to historic events, such as the killings at Columbine High School and the 9/11 attacks, which define the movie’s tone and set the plot in motion. Can you figure out their surnames and where they fit into the puzzle?įor a bonus puzzle, unscramble the letters in the grey squares once you’ve finished the “crossward” to identify the first and last names of a thirteenth journalist.With its extremes of experience and banal slightness of content, Brady Corbet’s rock-world melodrama “Vox Lux,” portentously labelled “A Twenty-First Century Portrait,” is an exemplary latter-day entry in the realm of cinematic camp. I’ve given you their first name(s) and a show they hosted, which might be from the past or the present. To celebrate the continued importance of this crucial media source, I’ve made a “crossward” that is constructed from the surnames of 12 CBC journalists from both radio and television. With the need for up-to-the-minute coverage of such great importance in the past year, I’ve been thinking a lot about the importance of our national broadcaster, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The answer to each hint fits into one of the rows of the acrostic below, but it’s up to you to sort out where.Īs always, follow the link above the puzzle for a printable version and the link below it for the answers. This month, 793.73 offers us up a “crossward” themed around some of the hosts and journalists from throughout the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s history. Douglas Davey is our cryptic crossword creator and puzzler extraordinaire.
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