{"id":13149,"date":"2026-07-22T02:54:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=13149"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:54:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T21:54:28","slug":"charli-xcx-taps-vincent-cassel-for-cinematic-camera-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=13149","title":{"rendered":"Charli XCX Taps Vincent Cassel for Cinematic &#8216;Camera&#8217; Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe great French actor Vincent Cassel grumbles through a brutal day on set in the new music video for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/charli-xcx-new-album-music-fashion-film-brat-1235576603\/\">Charli XCX<\/a>\u2019s \u201cCamera.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDirected by Charli\u2019s frequent visual collaborator Aidan Zamiri, the clip follows Cassel as he tries to film a climactic desert shootout scene on a set where things keep going horribly wrong. During the first take, his squib fails to go off, and while it explodes in a gush of fake blood on the second, the take is ruined by the sparks of an overheated light.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhile Cassel is the \u201cCamera\u201d video\u2019s primary focus, Charli does appear a few times, ostensibly as the movie\u2019s director, riding the camera as it moves across a dolly track. Adding to the cinematic nature of the clip, the whole thing is, as they say in the biz, a \u201cone-er\u201d \u2014 a single, continuous shot with no cuts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charli xcx - Camera (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eO3zsYsDnbI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cCamera\u201d is the latest offering from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/charli-xcx\/\" id=\"auto-tag_charli-xcx\" data-tag=\"charli-xcx\">Charli XCX<\/a>\u2019s upcoming album, <em>Music, Fashion, Film<\/em>, which is slated to arrive this Friday, July 24. It follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-music-fashion-film-album-track-list-1235590369\/\">previously released tracks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-rock-music-single-1235556390\/\">\u201cRock Music,\u201d<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-new-song-ss26-music-video-1235566882\/\">\u201cSS26,\u201d<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-new-song-music-video-wink-wink-1235583175\/\">\u201cWink Wink.\u201d<\/a> Charli made <em>Music, Fashion, Film<\/em> with her longtime producer A.G. Cook, as well as another frequent collaborator, Finn Keane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/charli-xcx-new-album-music-fashion-film-brat-1235576603\/\"><em>Rolling Stone <\/em>cover story<\/a>, Charli pushed back against the notion that <em>Music, Fashion, Film<\/em> was supposed to be a \u201crock album,\u201d a perception spurred largely by the lead single. \u201cObviously, I know that there\u2019s been a lot of conversation around me making a rock album, which is something that I never said,\u201d she said. \u201cBut to be honest, I\u2019ve never thought about genre in a binary way. I find that to be a very old-school notion. I don\u2019t even know what the genre is. It\u2019s just me and A. G. Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFollowing the release of <em>Music, Fashion, Film<\/em>, Charli will play a handful of festivals, including Lollapalooza and Outside Lands. She\u2019ll kick off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/charli-xcx-announces-music-fashion-film-fall-tour-1235572499\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of the record on Sept. 11 in Philadelphia, with the run wrapping Oct. 23 in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great French actor Vincent Cassel grumbles through a brutal day on set in the new music video for Charli XCX\u2019s \u201cCamera.\u201d\u00a0 Directed by Charli\u2019s frequent visual collaborator Aidan Zamiri, the clip follows Cassel as he tries to film a climactic desert shootout scene on a set where things keep going horribly wrong. 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