2014 Sils Maria

Highlights
Kristen Stewart, César 2015 de la Meilleure Actrice dans un Second Rôle dans SILS MARIA | Post | 20150221
Best Supporting Actress - the National Society of Film Critics
Best Supporting Actress - New York Film Critics Circle
Best Supporting Actress - Boston Society of Film Critics
Best Supporting Actress - the runner-up for the L.A. Critics Award
Critique du film Sils Maria - AlloCiné ★★★½
European Film Market of the 64th Berlinale (February 6-16, 2014)

Interview / Article

Seeing Stars Can modern movie posters be cured of Floating Head Syndrome?
By Craig Caron, TIFF | 20170706
Tweet: Explore Olivier Assayas' career in posters — whose films (mostly) managed to avoid the pitfalls of Hollywood design.

Kristen Stewart on Juliette Binoche: 'She Drives Me F--king Crazy' by Peter Travers, Rolling Stone | Tweet | 20150407
"I'm addicted to the first time," Stewart says, after Binoche recalls watching the actress stroll onto set and briefly look at the script right before the take starts. "I'm addicted to that feeling that you've to constructed something, but that you're really, truly discovering something. If something happens for me once, everything after feels like a false imitation."
xxx The 52nd New York Film Festival | Film info | Tweet | Sep 26 – Oct 12, 2014 | Red Carpet, Photos and Conference

The Close-Up: Olivier Assayas, Juliette Binoche, and Kristen Stewart on 'Clouds of Sils Maria' by Brian Brooks and Michael Odmark, Film Society Linkcoln Center | Tweet | 20150808
Clouds of Sils Maria, a main-slate selection of last year’s New York Film Festival, stars Binoche as a veteran actress coming to terms with her life and career after agreeing to act in a revival of the play that made her famous 20 years earlier. Stewart plays her assistant, who accompanies her on a soul-searching journey through the Sils Maria region of the Swiss Alps.
NYFF review: Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche in "Clouds of Sils Maria" by David Morgan, CBS News | 20141009
Kristen Stewart's performance will be a revelation to those who only know her from Hollywood franchises. Her Valentine is not only intelligent, forthright and funny; she also holds her own against her older employer -- more than just a sounding board, she tries to be the conscience of Maria, and of Maria's stage character. She's an exceptionally natural, un-self-conscious performer.
Auteurs From Near and Far by David Morgan, CBS News | Tweet | 20141003
“Clouds of Sils Maria,” the latest from Olivier Assayas, didn’t receive the love it deserved at Cannes, so here’s hoping it receives a more receptive audience now. Kristen Stewart delivers an intricately layered performance as an assistant to a French star (Juliette Binoche), who, in between anxious asides about middle age, contemplates appearing alongside an American starlet (Chloë Grace Moretz). Mr. Assayas’s touch is tender, and his direction brilliant.
Kent Jones Talks 'Inherent Vice,' Godard, Resnais, Kristen Stewart, and More from NYFF52 by Brian Brooks, Film Society Lincoln Center | Tweet | 20150821
FL: Another favorite during the festival was Olivier Assayas’s film, Clouds of Sils Maria. I heard that people in Cannes were going on about how great it was, Kristen Stewart in particular. And how she and Juliette Binoche had a really great on-screen dynamic.

KJ: The majority of the movie is Binoche and Stewart working together in a house in the middle of a very isolated spot in the Alps. I have to say I’m a little bit puzzled by why people are so surprised that Kristen Stewart can act.

FL: Maybe they thought of it as such an unlikely combination…
Head in the Clouds by Sue Williamson, W Magazine | 20141009
“It’s a really solid story,” she said. “Other than the obvious comments it makes about a world I’m really familiar with and not too many people are—which is the insanity of the media in America—the relationship between those two women is so unique. I have not seen that relationship depicted in a film ever.” Her [Kristen] pride in Clouds was shared by Binoche. “It was such a gift given to me as an actress to have this story written,” the actress said. “There was something genuine about the experience that made it special to my heart.”
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA Review | NYFF 2014 by Perri Nemiroff, Collider | 20141008
Part of the reason it’s possible to connect on such a deep, carnal level is because Binoche and Stewart both deliver flawless work. In fact, this might be Stewart’s best performance yet. She’s done sound and convincing work before, but I’ve never seen her give the audience access to a character quite like this one.


The 39th annual Toronto International Film Festival | Film Info | Sep 04 - 14, 2014

TIFF Review: “Clouds of Sils Maria” is Oddly Worth Remembering, But Not Watching by Morad Moazami, Movie Mezzanine | 20140913
Stewart’s role, instead, does not demand her to stray far from the familiar roles of her past, but how she speaks and how she expresses the understated emotions required for her character are impressive, and on many occasions, she outshines Binoche.
TIFF Day 1: Kristen Stewart and Juliette Binoche Talk (a Lot) About Aging Actresses by Joe Reid, The Alantic | 20140905
The interplay between Binoche and Stewart is the real draw here, and it's quite enjoyable. I've long been an advocate of Stewart's talent, and the further she gets away from Twilight and its like, the better.
TIFF 2014: Traveling in a Darkened Theater by Brian Tallerico, Robert Ebert | 20140905
While there are moments that work, too much of the commentary on celebrity culture feels forced (especially when Moretz’s paper-thin character comes into play) and the overwritten aspects of the script push up against the more honest work by Binoche and Stewart. They’re both phenomenal here, but I found myself trying to unpack what “Clouds of Sils Maria” was trying to say more often than enjoying it. It never breathes because it’s too busy “saying something.”


Kristen Stewart interview: Twilight star talks new film Clouds of Sils Maria, tattoos and the dark side of celebrity by Kaleem Aftab, Independent | 20140905
It’s part of Guernica, a Picasso painting that I saw when I was 18 in Madrid and it floored me. It was the first time I’ve ever responded to a piece of art like that. It’s a sort of dismal depiction with this little shred of light – if you just turn the light back on everything will be fine. I like the imagery, the combination of the eye, the sun and the people as a light bulb as if they are making a movie. Literally, it’s just perfect for me. I love the memory and the idea: keep going, keep the f**king light on. - Kristen Stewart
★★★★½ Clouds of Sils Maria by Diego Semerene, Slant | 20140901
Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart’s co-inhabitance on the screen works so well because it’s a non-encounter.
A Criterion Collection | Jun 2016 | Film Info | Announcement | Tweet

iClouds of Sils Maria by Molly Haskell, Criterion | Tweet | 20160630
One of the great comic sequences comes when Maria and Valentine go to see the futuristic franchise superhero hit that features Jo-Ann as a princess. Prancing around in a silvery bodysuit, she delivers herself of a passionate love soliloquy. Maria is wide-eyed with amused disbelief, Valentine awestruck. Discussing it afterward, Valentine maintains that Jo‑Ann goes “deeper into the darker side of her character.” Despite her superpowers, she has no defenses, Valentine goes on. It’s “fucking powerful.” Maria doubles over, as do we, but somehow the laughter curdles. Could we actually be wrong?
Exploring Femininity in Clouds of Sils Maria by Criterion | Tweet | 20160629
Olivier Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria brings together Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart to play out a psychologically complex relationship between two women. Binoche, once again teaming up with Assayas, after starring in his 2008 drama Summer Hours, is Maria Enders, a celebrated actor of stage and screen who is preparing to rejoin the cast of the play that made her a star—but this time, she’ll portray the older female lead, instead of her younger foil. Stewart, giving a beautifully nuanced performance for which she became the first American woman to win France’s César Award, inverts her real-life star status to embody Valentine, Maria’s devoted assistant, who treads a fine line between employee and confidante. When the pair travel to a cottage in the Swiss Alps to prepare for Maria’s new role, the boundaries between them become increasingly murky, as the ever-sensitive Assayas examines the pressures and pleasures of the artistic life and the various roles we all assume each day.


67th annual Cannes Film Festival | May 17 to 28 May | Red Carpet, Photos and Conference

A Film About Film Divides Cannes by Manohla Dargis, NYTimes | 20140525
There’s a scene in “Clouds of Sils Maria” in which a young American played by Kristen Stewart delivers a beautifully sincere defense of blockbusters to a French star played by Juliette Binoche.
Cannes Film Review: ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ by Peter Debruge, Variety | 20140523
Heightening the effect still further, Assayas uses the inescapable “baggage” of Stewart’s offscreen persona — from broken-marriage tabloid drama to a tossed-off eye-roll over the ridiculous rise in werewolf projects post-“Twilight” — to slyly alter the movie’s pH.
★★★★☆ Cannes 2014 review: Clouds of Sils Maria - blue sky thesping by Xan Brooks, The Guardian | 20140523
The relationship here is quite beautifully drawn, with Stewart again demonstrating what a terrific performer she can be away from the shadow of Twilight. She's sharp and limber; she's a match for Binoche.
'Clouds of Sils Maria': Cannes Review by Todd McCarthy, THR | 20140523
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.
Cannes Review: Olivier Assayas’ ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ Starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart And Chloë Grace Moretz by Jessica Kiang , IndieWire | 20140523
We’re as surprised as anyone, but the major acting laurels on this particular occasion go to, wait for it, Kristen Stewart, who for our money delivers the better performance (and the film is mostly a two-hander between her and Binoche) and actually manages to make some of the thankless exposition and clumsy dialogue she’s given sound almost natural.
Cannes, Day Ten: Olivier Assayas' "Clouds of Sils Maria" by Barbara Scharres, Robert Ebert | 20140523
The duality works at times and stands out in its excessive contrivance at others. Binoche and Stewart project the kind of rapport that makes scenes in which they fall into drunken laughter and horseplay quite engaging.
Kristen Stewart Flips a Metaphorical Middle Finger to Critics With a Great Performance at Cannes by Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair | 20140523
In Oliver Assayas’s Clouds of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart sticks it to anyone who ever slammed her for Twilight.


Buyers plow towards MK2ʼs Farm by by Wendy Mitchell, ScreenDaily | 20130908

First clap for Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas by Fabien Lemercier, Cineurope | 20130820 | Tweet

(2014) Clouds of Sils Maria

Chloe Moretz's Journey To 'Sils Maria' With Kristen Stewart, Juliette Binoche
By Amy Wilkinson, MTV| 20130729 | Tweet


‘Sils Maria’ Adds Kristen Stewart; Actress to Lead ‘Camp X-Ray’ by Nick Newman, The Film Stage | 20130604

ʻTwilight Sagaʼs Kristen Stewart Lands Leads In ʻCamp X-Ray,ʼ ʻSils Mariaʼ by Mike Fleming JR , Deadline | 20130604

‘Sils Maria’: MK2 Takes Global Sales on Assayas’ English-Language Debut by Elsa Keslassy, Variety | 20130516

Charles Gillibert Launches CG Cinema by Elsa Keslassy, Variety | 20130515

Interview: Oliver Assayas on Something in the Air and Hating the '70s by Eric Hynes, Village Voice | 20130501

Comments

Post a Comment