Early in The Moment, film director Johannes (Alexander Skarsgård), who’s been hired to make a movie about Charli XCX’s upcoming tour, tells the artist’s creative director Celeste (Hailey Benton Gates) that concert audiences aren’t interested in just having a “nightclub” experience—they want a story.
Because Charli’s entire persona is built around cigarettes, cocaine, and partying—and because Johannes is an exploitative creep—this opinion is meant to be ridiculous. Yet it’s advice that the film’s actual director, Aidan Zamiri, should have heeded with this pop-icon mockumentary, which may have things to say, but doesn’t have a clue how to say them.
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