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, which meant that on Monday at 10:30 p.m. at the Palais, the air was thick with anticipation and probably ketamine. The question was burning, implicit, unspoken, internally dialogued in dozens of languages, and I’ll answer it for you now, among others: IsWe meet Jocelyn, a pop star whose mother has died a year earlier and who may or may not have had a psychological breakdown thereafter.
The two start hooking up at his club but are interrupted by her best friend and assistant, Rachel Sennott’s Leia, who doesn’t like his vibe. Undeterred, Jocelyn invites Tedros over to her house the next night, where he convinces her to redo her song but sing it “like she knows how to fuck,” or, as he explains, like Donna Summer in “Love to Love You Baby.” They record a new version of “Sinner” after he wraps a silk robe around her face, suffocating her.
Everyone on Jocelyn’s team ridicules this man, and eventually Hank Azaria locks him in a closet so Jocelyn can doff her top as much as she wants. Shortly thereafter, Jane Adams’s exaggeratedly craven label exec Nikki argues with Troye Sivan about whether mental illness is “sexy” — she says it is, and that they should capitalize on Jocelyn’s breakdown, because it allows men in Middle America to believe they’ll somehow be able to “fuck her.
Is it “a dark satire of fame and the fame model in the 21st century,” or is it “the thing it is satirizing”? It depends on how it all plays out — is this a campy horror story about a fearsome manipulator, or, as Depp has put it in previous interviews and the press notes, a “love story” about her “favorite TV couple”?People clapped along to an orgasm-enhanced remake of Donna Summer’s “Love to Love You Baby” that played during the credits. The standing ovation afterward was classic Cannes length; Randolph, Depp, and the Weeknd got the biggest responses from the crowd.
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