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MaXXXine is the conclusion of director Ti West's X Trilogy, starring Mia Goth. The story continues in 1985, six years after the events of X, with Maxine Minx now a star in the adult film industry, trying to transition to "mainstream" cinema. Simultaneously, a figure who knows about her dark past tries to blackmail her and thwart her plans, while a serial killer is loose in Hollywood, claiming the lives of several sex workers and actresses at the height of the "Satanic Panic" of the Reagan era. With vast references to film history, the third movie in the trilogy successfully grounds themes introduced in X and its prequel, Pearl: together, the three parts form a triptych that analyzes the moral schizophrenia of American society and culture, with female fame existing in the constant tension between prudish conservatism and misogynistic exploitation.
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Plot summary
In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
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Pearl
After paying tribute to slasher horror in the acclaimed X, filmmaker Ti West now travels to the late 1910s to tell the origin story of Pearl, the killer from the first movie, once again portrayed by the brilliant Mia Goth (Suspiria). In this film (the second part of his X Trilogy), we follow the story of this young woman who can no longer take living on a remote farm with her abusive mother and vegetative father. Between comings and goings, mistakes and successes, Pearl finally has a breakdown because she can't take it anymore, she wants a change and is always ignored. It is a much more mature production than the previous film, both in terms of direction and script, as it knows how to develop its characters and, above all, create a climate of tension even with absurdly colorful and sunny scenes, with cinematography reminiscent of technicolor films like The Wizard of Oz. Again, it's worth highlighting the impactful performance by Goth, overlooked at the 2023 Oscars, who makes the most of her potential. It's no coincidence that even filmmaker Martin Scorsese praised the film and the performance.
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