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Lux Æterna Reviews
this “dream-like movie”, shot metacinematically behind the scenes, exposes the ugliness of a set, and of society, while also finding room in its ultimate, flickering apocalypse for a peak moment of multi-hued rapture.
| Jun 6, 2022
It works in some ways -- there's a sensory attack to this film.
| May 21, 2022
Knowing how dazzling Noé can be when he’s fully engaged on a full-length movie could’ve left Lux Æterna feeling like a bit of a letdown, but it’s a freaking Yves Saint Laurent advert!
| Original Score: B- | May 20, 2022
"Lux Æterna" feels like half an idea, and in turn, only half a movie.
| Original Score: C | May 19, 2022
Not bad for what was supposed to be a 15-minute fashion commercial.
| May 19, 2022
You have to hand it to Noe, because it is kind of mesmerizing in its perverse single-mindedness, and the fact that “Lux Aeterna” is only 50 minutes long makes it more endurable.
| May 15, 2022
“Lux Aeterna,” to its credit, is a pretty terrible commercial and an undeniably fascinating experiment.
| May 6, 2022
A vigorously realized doodle.
| Original Score: 3/4 | May 6, 2022
Let’s be clear: “Lux Æterna” is a glorified Saint Laurent commercial.
| May 4, 2022
If the film-within-the-film is a vapid fetishization of womens martyrdom, Lux Æterna is a willful exercise in repulsing its own audience.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 1, 2022
You have to laugh at the absurdity of it all.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 23, 2019
Lux Aeterna is a mess.
| Original Score: 1/5 | May 21, 2019
The closing moments of "Lux Æterna" are such a disturbing outburst of light, color, and 3-D illusions they might make even stereoscopic auteur Ken Jacobs avert his eyes. Ironically, however, this very act of destabilization gives Noé an ideal vessel...
| Original Score: B | May 20, 2019
Lux Æterna shows Noé reverting to the self-parodic silliness that Climax had taken him past.
| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2019
With all this visual and aural opulence to ogle, the story feels almost secondary, but there is one there, crafted perhaps with more deliberation than the staged shambles might suggest.
| May 19, 2019