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 Clouds of Sils Maria Clouds of Sils Maria Quote: Clouds of Sils Maria is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, and starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloë Grace Moretz. The film is a German-French-Swiss co-production. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2014. It screened at the Midnight Sun Film Festival and Filmfest München and will screen at Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival.
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trixster
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Re: Clouds of Sils Maria abstract
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Re: Clouds of Sils Maria I thought this was wonderful. It was definitely pretentious and such but I had a wonderful time with it. The performances here are wonderful and I loved the scenes with them reading their lines. I do think it went on a bit too long at the end but overall, I had a wonderful time with it.
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David
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Re: Clouds of Sils Maria An invitation to headline a new West End staging of her first hit play, but this time as an older character, precipitates an existential midlife crisis for an international star (Juliette Binoche), and her devoted personal assistant (Kristen Stewart) is forced to navigate the subsequent turmoil. Clouds of Sils Maria has a methodical pace and at times belabors its points regarding Internet-generation authenticity and celebrity, but the film is still moving. It surprises and stings. The lion's share of the credit is owed to tremendous dueling performances by Binoche and Stewart; they generate a particular magic (searching, sexy, volatile) in Venus in Fur-style sequences in which eerie parallels between fiction and nonfiction emerge during informal rehearsals.
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David
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Re: Clouds of Sils Maria Are we to believe Stewart's character just quit (while...on a mountain), or is there meant to be ambiguity regarding her fate or even her existence?
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trixster
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Re: Clouds of Sils Maria she quit, to prove the point that she was making to binoche's character just previously
_________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Clouds of Sils Maria David wrote: Are we to believe Stewart's character just quit (while...on a mountain), or is there meant to be ambiguity regarding her fate or even her existence? I am really not sure about that as well. _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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Shack
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Re: Clouds of Sils Maria I really liked the scenes between Binoche and Stewart. Their relationship and the intense repressed emotions felt right. Stewart's let out just enough of her real emotion and at the right moments. Binoche gives a monster performance. It's a crime she hasn't gotten more Oscar attention. There is so much in the tone of voice in her dialog and the look in her eyes. The whole film could have been them really. My interpretation is Valentine is real, but whether she is real or imaginary doesn't change anything for Maria, since Val's role was to play the Sigrid to the Helena in Maria and to get her past her existential crisis. That Maria never saw those clouds to the real not Sigrid that is Val, or the signs Val was in love with her, is why she left.
The non Binoche and Stewart segments of this film didn't come together for me. Moretz was surprisingly great and I wasn't expecting to see her tap into emotional depth like that, but everything with her character, boyfriend, his ex-wife, etc. came off flat and especially feels like a drag to the end after Stewart's disappearance. In Binoche and Stewart's conversations the screenplay walks a thin line between density and needlessly repeating itself. I wouldn't call this a perfect fit but its best parts are more than worthy
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