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Charli XCX and Vincent Cassel in the 'Camera' music video. YouTube/Charli XCX The great French actor Vincent Cassel grumbles through a brutal day on set in the new music video for Charli XCX’s “Camera.”
Directed by Charli’s 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.
While Cassel is the “Camera” video’s primary focus, Charli does appear a few times, ostensibly as the movie’s 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 “one-er” — a single, continuous shot with no cuts.
“Camera” is the latest offering from Charli XCX’s upcoming album, Music, Fashion, Film, which is slated to arrive this Friday, July 24. It follows previously released tracks “Rock Music,” “SS26,” and “Wink Wink.” Charli made Music, Fashion, Film with her longtime producer A.G. Cook, as well as another frequent collaborator, Finn Keane.
