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Clouds of Sils Maria

  • 20142014
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  • 2h 4m
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6.7/10
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Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
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A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.A film star comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself while starring in a revival of the play that launched her career.
IMDb RATING
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30K
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    • Olivier Assayas
    • Olivier Assayas
  • Stars
    • Juliette Binoche
    • Kristen Stewart
    • Chloë Grace Moretz
    • Olivier Assayas
    • Olivier Assayas
  • Stars
    • Juliette Binoche
    • Kristen Stewart
    • Chloë Grace Moretz
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 113User reviews
    • 369Critic reviews
    • 79Metascore
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    Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
    Juliette Binoche and Lars Eidinger in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
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    Juliette Binoche in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
    Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
    Kristen Stewart in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
    Chloë Grace Moretz in Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
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    Juliette Binoche at an event for Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)

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    Juliette Binoche
    Juliette Binoche
    • Maria Enders
    Kristen Stewart
    Kristen Stewart
    • Valentine
    Chloë Grace Moretz
    Chloë Grace Moretz
    • Jo-Ann Ellis
    Lars Eidinger
    Lars Eidinger
    • Klaus Diesterweg
    Johnny Flynn
    Johnny Flynn
    • Christopher Giles
    Angela Winkler
    Angela Winkler
    • Rosa Melchior
    Hanns Zischler
    Hanns Zischler
    • Henryk Wald
    Nora Waldstätten
    Nora Waldstätten
    • Actress in Sci-fi Movie
    • (as Nora von Waldstätten)
    Brady Corbet
    Brady Corbet
    • Piers Roaldson
    Aljoscha Stadelmann
    Aljoscha Stadelmann
    • Urs Kobler
    Claire Tran
    Claire Tran
    • Maria's London Assistant
    Stuart Manashil
    • Maria's Agent
    Peter Farkas
    • Journalist in Zürich
    Ben Posener
    Ben Posener
    • Journalist in London
    Ricardia Bramley
    • Talk Show Host
    Luise Berndt
    • Nelly, Urs' assistant
    Gilles Tschudi
    • Mayor of Zürich
    Benoit Peverelli
    Benoit Peverelli
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      • Olivier Assayas
      • Olivier Assayas
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    • Trivia
      The French fashion house Chanel supplied the actresses with clothes, jewelry, accessories and makeup, while also providing some of the budget to allow Olivier Assayas to fulfill his dream of shooting the movie on 35-mm film instead of digitally.
    • Goofs
      In the opening, the characters are riding in what is clearly a second-class rail car. This would be completely out of character, given what we see later in the movie.
    • Quotes

      Valentine: It's theatre. It's an interpretation of life. It can be truer than life itself.

    • Crazy credits
      During the closing credits, four of the actors are shown under the heading "guest appearance by".
    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Kristen Stewart/Michael Shannon/Cage the Elephant (2016)
    • Soundtracks
      Kowalski
      Written by Bobby Gillespie, Andrew Innes, Robert Young, Martin Duffy, and Mani (as Gary Mounfield)

      Performed by Primal Scream.

    User reviews113

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    9/10
    Strong, provocative, intelligent work of art (not for everyone)
    If you are a big fan of Magritte and Escher, of the writer Sebald, of Pirandello and Philip Glass and maybe the film "Koyaanisqatsi", I predict that you will love this film. If, on the other hand, you can't see the point of any of these and believe only in Aristotle's six elements of drama, there are many other excellent films you will like much better. It's a matter of taste.

    In this film, writer/director Assayas deliberately blurs the distinctions between a number of levels. You start with people in the business of theatre and film: Marie Enders (Binoche), an experienced and celebrated actress, and Valentine (Stewart), her young, busy, competent personal assistant, and the people in Marie's past, living and dead.

    Then there is the level of the characters in the play "The Maloja Snake" of twenty years ago, when Marie played the young and cruel Sigrid who loved and crushed her middle-aged employer, Helena. There is the level of the characters of the same play today, in which director Klaus Diesterweg (Lars Eidinger) hopes to recruit Marie to play Helena, possibly with a different take on the characters' motives and psychology, and in which Jo-Ann Ellis (Moritz) is eventually cast as Sigrid.

    And there is also the level of the real human world, including events in the life of the real Kristen Stewart, which have striking parallels in the life of the fictional Ellis; the same seems to be true of Binoche and Enders, and I have read that "The Maloja Snake" is a parallel world version of Fassbinder's "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant".

    Spanning all these levels are the the real Switzerland and its real mountains and clouds, including the real Maloja Snake, a cloud phenomenon which was the subject of a black-and-white short film in the 1920's which is excerpted in Assayas' film and which can be seen on YouTube. The Internet spans all these levels too, and all the characters in the film are busy with texting and Skyping and Googling and checking out and fixing their IMDb info.

    And then the work of playing characters, of determining and managing emotions, of arguing about what really motivates real or fictional or play-within-a-play fictional characters, either within the industry of the creative arts or not, also bridges the levels. We are constantly aware of the analogies and reflections among Valentine - Maria, Sigrid - Helena, Jo-Ann - Maria, and so on. Readings of lines take place, in which you sometimes wonder what level you are on, and we see a lot of the details of the creative discussions which must go into the production of plays or for that matter, not incidentally, movies such as "Clouds of Sils Maria". If you get lazy and suspend your disbelief and allow yourself to mentally presume that "Clouds" is a comprehensible narrative of the real world, Assayas will bring you up short without any ceremony.

    So, does that kind of thing strike you as artistically intriguing or intellectually exciting? If it does, see the movie. It will give you a lot to think about and appreciate and puzzle about and discuss afterward. (The Swiss tourist board will thank you also.) If it seems a bit dry and abstract, well, you are fairly warned.
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    FAQ7

    • What happened to Val? Why was some kind of long-term reaction/concern from Maria or other characters never shown?
    • Was Val real or imagined?
    • What exactly does the cloud formation "the Maloja Snake" (that gives both this film and the play-within-a-film their titles) symbolize?

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    • Release date
      • August 20, 2014 (France)
      • France
      • Germany
      • Switzerland
    • Official sites
      • Filmportal (German Movies)
      • French distribution's official site
      • English
      • French
      • German
      • Swiss German
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    • Filming locations
      • Sils-Maria, Kanton Graubünden, Switzerland
    • Production companies
      • CG Cinéma
      • Pallas Film
      • CAB Productions
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    • 2 hours 4 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby Digital EX

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