Maps to The Stars

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Maps to the Stars is the best film I have seen this weekend. By far. Ok I love David Cronenberg and his clean cinematography and weirdness that is both scary and makes sense at some level. This is the sort of film that appeals to me. Clean cinematography, a lot of close ups, a great cast with perfect performances (Julianne Moore is a gift from God I think) - the only one I don't like is John Cusack but his character was unlikable so this time it worked for me-.

This one is a dark film without a single nice character. There is a brother and sister, brother a huge star (but one in this teens) sister, a sociopath who just left the sanatarium. Their father is a famous celebrity pyschiatrist of some sort who is not a nice person, only interested in his book tour and the career of his son. The son is in rehab (he is what? 13??) and he is kind of an asshole. Insecure and plagued with ennui, he starts to see hallucinations of a dead girl (after he visited her in the hospital for a charity project and got her illness wrong at the time). The sister is back in town with her scars (she burned the house down when her brother is in it) and stars to work as Julianne Moore's character's personal assistant (she gets the job due to Carrie Fisher, who befriends the girl when writing a story about burn victims) Havana Segrand is a nasty person too. She wants a job in a new film that will be the remake of her famous mother's cult film. She gave a good reading but doesn't look like she'll get it. And she doesn't. She is very unhappy. But later on the little child of the actress chosen for the part she wants is found dead in the pool and you should see how she acts all concerned in front of other people but she sings and dances with her assistant in private.

There is a limo driver who has sex with Agatha (the pyscho sister) and Havana is also interested in him just because he dates Agatha and Havana is that kind of a bitch.

The ending is really good. The child star tries to choke a co actor (who is a very yound kid, to be honest, he was seeing hallucinations at the time but still) who mercifully pulls through at the hospital. Agatha kills Havana with one of her (or her mother's) awards. And then two siblings go to the land of their old house and commit suicide there (or I think they do since they take a lot of pills).

I loved this one.