Dopo aver riconquistato centralità e felicità espressiva con il dittico di genere A history of violence e La promessa dell’assassino, Cronenberg è tornato al cinema d’autore con i due meno convincenti A dangerous method e Cosmopolis, ed è ora di nuovo sul set di Maps to the stars. E’ un periodo di grande prolificità, indubbiamente.
Il nuovo film parla di Hollywood, a partire da una sceneggiatura di Bruce Wagner, con un cast di primissimo piano: John Cusack, Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams e l’ormai inseparabile Sarah Gadon.
The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Sanford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Christina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star.
One of Sanford’s clients, Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the ’60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night. Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha, has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania…
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