Given vs Vox Lux
Given has the higher audience score (8.3/10 against 5.8/10 for Vox Lux). Given is the shorter watch at 1h compared with 1h 54m. Vox Lux is the older of the two (2018 against 2020). Both are drama, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Given
Vox Lux| Given | Vox Lux | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.3/10 | ★ 5.8/10 |
| Year | 2020 | 2018 |
| Length | 1h | 1h 54m |
| Genres | Animation, Drama, Music, Romance | Drama, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Hikaru Yamaguchi | Brady Corbet |
| Main cast | Takuya Eguchi, Yuma Uchida, Masatomo Nakazawa, Shogo Yano, Shintaro Asanuma | Jude Law, Maria Dizzia, Natalie Portman, Christopher Abbott, Stacy Martin |
Synopsis
Given
Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.
Vox Lux
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of catastrophe — while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, the now 31-year-old Celeste is mother to a teenage daughter of her own and struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.