At eighteen, Maria Enders was successful in theatre with MalojaSnake. She played Sigird, an ambitious girl with disorder charm who fascinated and led to suicide Helena, a mature woman. This role has changed her life. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take on the role of Sigrid, and Maria finds herself on the other side of the mirror, face to face with an ambiguously charming woman who is, in essence, an unsettling reflection of herself.
1959
18 June 1947, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
10 February 1997, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
21 January 1976, Berlin, Germany
28 September 1983, Germany
5 January 1975, Dublin, Ireland
9 March 1964, Paris, France
1974, Northampton, England, UK
14 March 1983, Johannesburg, South Africa
1957, Switzerland
1974, Wuppertal, Germany
17 August 1988, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
1 December 1981, Vienna, Austria
9 April 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 January 1944, Templin, Brandenburg, Germany
May 11, 2017
Clouds of Sils Maria is a lot more interesting than just being an arthouse takedown of the mainstream. Unfortunately, director Olivier Assayas is self-aware of this and his movie frequently comes across as too clever for it's own good.April 30, 2015
Binoche, on whom the camera affectionately lingers, makes herself achingly vulnerable. Though the film feels at times a bit cloudy and enigmatic, it's often fascinating in its juxtapositions.April 30, 2015
Brilliant performances aside, "Clouds of Sils Maria" is overlong and much too self-indulgently an "art film." It might have benefited from being just a bit more grounded.March 09, 2017
As Valentine and Marie argue over their interpretations of the play, it sparks an ongoing discussion about youth, aging, memory, superstition and fame.April 24, 2015
Clouds of Sils Maria is fiendishly wise to the ways of show business, particularly the boxes in which it places women. But the film offers more than that.July 19, 2016
The film is a puzzle, but one you don't necessarily have to solve in order to enjoy it or take something away from it.July 11, 2016
Less a narrative than a character study, it's a sometimes-frustrating but nonetheless curious, enthralling experience seeing the very low-key American Stewart do battle with Binoche's elegant, European diva.October 29, 2016
As if Ingmar Bergman were directing All About Eve.March 18, 2017
...a movie of many layers, most of which are only partly revealed.June 06, 2016
Clouds of Sils Maria shows how it is not the movies that change, but how perception of art itself changes.May 01, 2015
It meditates long and hard on questions of age, sincerity, celebrity and love, piling irony on irony. And it features a remarkably natural performance by Kristen Stewart that's so unastounding it's astounding.April 23, 2015
The real star turns out to be the play itself: the early masterpiece of a now-deceased writer, a work of such mirrorlike perfection that it reveals entirely different things to different people.