Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Brady Corbet on the complex portrait of modern celebrity in 'Vox Lux'

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - "Vox Lux" is a movie full of big ideas. So big and so full, in fact, that the movie requires a secondary title, "A 21st Century Portrait."

Meaning, it is both a portrait of a character from the era and, in many ways, a portrait of our no longer quite so young century.

Written and directed by Brady Corbet, the movie opens in 1999 with a mass school shooting. A teenage girl wounded in the attack, Celeste (Raffey Cassidy), sings a song at a vigil that puts her on the path to fame. Jumping to 2017, adult Celeste (Natalie Portman) is a turbulent global pop star shaken by news of a terrorist attack in Europe in which the assailants wore masks similar to those in one of her music videos. With her