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VILLAGE VOICE: Cannes Report: A Great Julianne Moore Illuminates Maps to the Stars
It's been a few days since I saw David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, screening here in competition, and I'm still not completely sure what I think of this sometimes-smart, sometimes-arch ultra-black comedy about shallow Hollywood types. But one thing's for sure: Julianne Moore is a knockout in it.
Moore stars as Havana Segrand, a Hollywood actress in desperate decline. Her hair is bleached an ungodly shade of nowhere blonde; she's just had to fire her personal assistant, or, as she puts it, her "chore *****," and now faces the irksome task of finding another. The parts aren't rolling in as frequently as they used to, so she's frantically hoping she can play her own late, movie-star mother (who sexually abused her, natch) in a remake of her mom's big hit, despite the fact that she might be just a teensy bit over the hill for it.
Whenever Moore's on-screen -- which, thankfully, is often -- Maps to the Stars works like gangbusters. Moore is a terrific and fearless comic actress: She does one scene perched on the toilet, moaning to Agatha through the open door about how "backed up" she is by whatever this-or-that she's been taking, and would Agatha run to the store and pick up a little something to help? "I think it's called Quiet Moment," she says, and the more she natters, the longer her shopping list gets, expanding to include tampons and sweets from Maison du Chocolat ("You can get them at Nieman's"), an unholy combination if ever there was one.
But even with all that brassy hair, and arranged not-so-gracefully on the can, Moore never looks totally trashy, and her radiant dignity just makes everything funnier. In another scene, she turns an account of meeting one of the world's great spiritual dignitaries into an ace humblebrag. "I met the Dalai Lama," she says, nodding and taking a breath before zoning in on the kicker: "Very cool man." Moore, perched on her throne or not, is the queen of all she surveys in Maps to the Stars. You'll laugh until you find yourself needing a…Quiet Moment.
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Like...do you hear the crowd? His power/force with Urban is unreal. KING 
