Synopsis
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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Cast
- Juliette BinocheMaria Enders
- Kristen StewartValentine
- Chloë Grace MoretzJo-Ann Ellis
- Lars EidingerKlaus Diesterweg
- Johnny FlynnChristopher Giles
- Angela WinklerRosa Melchior
- Hanns ZischlerHenryk Wald
- Nora WaldstättenActress in Sci-Fi movie
- Brady CorbetPiers Roaldson
- Aljoscha StadelmannUrs Kobler
Recommendations
- 91
IndieWire
The typically great Binoche conveys a tantalizing mixture of confidence and unease as she considers her glamorous past and undetermined future. - 90
Variety
Binoche leaves audiences with the same exhilarating feeling here — of having witnessed something precious and rare — answering the challenge of Assayas’ script by revealing a character incredibly closer to her soul. - 90
The Dissolve
Clouds Of Sils Maria is a great midlife crisis film, in other words, and, like Irma Vep, it’s also a great meta-commentary on contemporary moviemaking, with Assayas making keen observations about modern celebrity, screen-devouring blockbusters, Internet gossip culture, and the next generation of actresses, represented here by Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz. - 88
Slant Magazine
The pleasure in watching the film becomes a linguistic one as Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart masterfully sharpen their words and hurl them at each other like projectiles out of a blowpipe. - 80
The Guardian
If Assayas's film finally falls just shy of being great art itself, it is at least handsomely staged and played with conviction. - 80
The Telegraph
This is a complex, bewitching and melancholy drama, another fearlessly intelligent film from Assayas. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Binoche and Stewart seem so natural and life-like that it would be tempting to suggest that they are playing characters very close to themselves. But this would also be denigrating and condescending, as if to suggest that they’re not really acting at all. - 67
Hitfix
Poised between melodrama and chamber piece, then, Clouds of Sils Maria is either too silly or not silly enough.
