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Actor Brady Corbet follows up his award-winning directorial debut The Childhood Of A Leader with a provocative musical drama about the heavy price of fame. In 1999, Celeste Montgomery (Raffey Cassidy) is an unremarkable teenager, gliding largely unnoticed through high school, until one of her classmates brings a gun into class and kills several students before turning the weapon on himself. Celeste survives the incident but is permanently scarred. During her recovery, she works with her musically gifted older sister Ellie (Stacy Martin) to write a song for the memorial service. A video of Celeste's moving performance goes viral and catapults her to stardom. A shrewd manager (Jude Law) snaps up Celeste and grooms her for a long career in pop, with Ellie as her chaperone. Years pass and Celeste (now played by Natalie Portman) rises to the dizzy heights of chart supremacy. However, her position is threatened when terrorists commit an outrage wearing masks that are strikingly similar to headgear in one of her music videos. Celeste finds herself in the eye of a media storm as she prepares for a high-profile gig.
