One aspect of her repertoire that Charli XCX really developed in 2024, her annus mirabilis, was her film career, so if you’re wondering next year why she’s suddenly in a shitload of movies, well, it’s because she was busy making them while you were trying to figure out exactly which shade of green was the most cover-accurate.
She’s going to be in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, Romain Gavrais’ Sacrifice, Pete Ohs’ Eruptcja, and we’re sure that we’ve forgotten a few. One we haven’t forgotten is Aidan Zamiri’s The Moment, which is as close as you’re going to get to an Eras Tour documentary, a pseudo-tour film with a stacked Hollywood cast and A24 distribution. Should it be called Don’t Look Brat? Discuss after you watch the trailer that A24 dropped earlier on Thursday.
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Here’s the A24 synopsis for The Moment:
“A rising pop sensation (Charli XCX) navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.”
And here are a few quotes Charli gave Vanity Fair in a profile of her they released in October:
“One project Charli turned down during this period was a tour documentary. She felt the market was already saturated with similar projects and says, ‘I feel like my problem with a lot of musician documentaries is it often shows the musician coming up against some kind of opposition and eventually overcoming it to be the hero. And that’s just not been my experience, you know? Maybe it has been a lot of other people’s, and that’s awesome.’
Charli calls ‘The Moment ‘ ‘a 2024 period piece.’ ‘It’s not a tour documentary or a concert film in any way, but the seed of the idea was conceived from this idea of being pressured to make one,’ she says. ‘It’s fiction, but it’s the realest depiction of the music industry that I’ve ever seen.'”
The Moment hits theaters right in the middle of brat winter — January 30.