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Clouds of Sils Maria (The Criterion Collection) [DVD]

Juliette Binoche (Actor), Kristen Stewart (Actor), Olivier Assayas (Director) Rated:
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Genre Drama
Format NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
Contributor Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Olivier Assayas, Juliette Binoche
Language English
Runtime 2 hours and 4 minutes
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This multilayered, immensely entertaining drama from the great contemporary French director Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours) is a singular look at the intersection of high art and popular culture. The always extraordinary Juliette Binoche (Code Unknown) is stirring as Maria, a stage and screen icon who is being courted to star in a new production of the play that made her famous only this time she must assume the role of the older woman. Kristen Stewart (Twilight) matches her punch for punch as her beleaguered assistant, called upon to provide support both professional and emotional for her mercurial boss. And Chloë Grace Moretz (Hugo) is Maria s arrogant new castmate, a starlet waiting in the wings. An amorphous, soul-searching tale, filled with ethereal images of its Swiss Alps setting, Clouds of Sils Maria brilliantly dramatizes one woman s reckoning with herself and the world.

DIRECTOR-APPROVED DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES 
- New 2K digital master
- New interviews with director Olivier Assayas and actors Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart
- Cloud Phenomena of Maloja, a silent 1924 documentary by Arnold Fanck that is seen in the film
- Trailer
- PLUS: An essay by critic Molly Haskell

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  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.72 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 35382988
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Olivier Assayas
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 2 hours and 4 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ June 28, 2016
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, German
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01D3LBD44
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
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Marilyn Hury
5.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing, smart, provocative
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2015
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If you missed CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA when it was released in April, it may be just what you need to keep the dog days at bay—and not only because the film’s locations primarily include a cozy chalet and the mountains, forested valleys, and high meadow vistas of the Alps in southeastern Switzerland. Lead actors Juliet Bincohe and Kristen Stewart give invigoratingly intelligent performances, and Olivier Assayas directs his own screenplay with shrewd grace. Assayas’ 2008 film, SUMMER HOURS, won the New York, Boston, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. Among other works he also directed 1996’s IRMA VEP. We watched CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA—which is largely in English with a few subtitles here and there—last night and found ourselves talking about it both as we headed off to bed and almost as soon as we were up this morning. How often do we see films that are psychologically engaging and emotionally affecting, that unfold like dreams with our never knowing—at every single step of the way— what will happen next, and that rigorously refuse to insult our intelligence?

The film picks up with Maria Enders (Binoche), a celebrated screen and stage actor, on a train to Zurich to deliver a tribute to a playwright named Wilhelm Melchior. Accompanied by a canny personal assistant, Valentine (Stewart), they receive news enroute that Melchior has died. The tribute goes ahead, and afterward the two women meet with his widow at her house in the Swiss mountains. Years before, Melchior wrote a play, “Maloja Snake,” about a female corporate boss who has an affair with a young woman in her office—originally played by Maria. Now she has been asked to revisit the work, on the London stage, in the role of the older woman. And so—staying at the Melchior chalet while the widow is away—Maria runs lines with Valentine reading Maria’s former part in Melchior’s home.

The viewer is invited to explore the indistinct and porous borders of art and life—and the unique artfulness of those actors who live even closer to those fault lines than others of their peers—but Assayas, Bincohe, and Stewart refrain from allowing the “meta” framing to become precious, archly intrusive, or self-conscious. The viewer is pleasurably seduced into a mystery that is heady, unpredictable, slightly disorienting, and provocative. CLOUDS OF SILA MARIA is both rich and fresh, and even an unresolved development near the end proves to be neither careless nor contrived but stimulating and, in retrospect, expansive.

As Maria confronts her insecurities about playing the older character in the play—and eventually meets the young Hollywood celebrity (Chloe Grace Moretz) who will take her former, career-making role as the manipulative 20-something seductress—the interplay between life and art burgeons with more force in Maria and Val’s relationship. As they take long hikes and bathe in alpine tarns, we are drawn even more deeply into the film by the necessity of trying to discern line rehearsals from personal exchanges. Binoche (who appeared onstage in London earlier this year in “Antigone”) gives one of her most raw-boned and arresting screen performances to date, and Stewart meets her more than halfway—she need not worry about her career lingering in the penumbra of TWILIGHT. (Both won France’s Cesar Awards for their performances this year, as did Assayas for his screenplay.)

The house and its pristine yet ethereal setting offer the film’s meditations an added redolence. Now a museum and study center, it was home to Friedrich Nietzsche during several productive summers. He wrote of it, “Here one can live well, in this strong, bright atmosphere, here where nature is amazingly mild and solemn and mysterious all at once,” he wrote. Assayas powerfully evokes this atmosphere for his film. Here is the true high life, one that calls into question the model in which Maria and her kind—and not only in the movie business—are so often consumed.
Not only does CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA invite repeat viewings, I anticipate that it will reward them.
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MEBChicago
4.0 out of 5 stars A Feast for Mind and Eye
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2017
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A "play" within a "play" where often the two intersect. Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is asked to perform a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years before. This time, however, she is asked to play the older woman rather than the ingenue. With the help of her assistant (Kristen Stewart), she fights this change in role but faces the reality that it is no longer appropriate for her to play the same role she previously played. The young woman who plays the role Enders made famous provides an unsettling force of youth vs. age.

While acting is uniformly wonderful Kristen Stewart in particular is a revelation. Her role stretches her abilities as an actress and she impressively measures up to the task. If an excellent plot and acting weren't enough, the photography is awe-inspiring.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
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errin spelling
3.0 out of 5 stars unlike clouds you have ever seen before
Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2021
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if you enjoy listening to people talk, this is your movie.it's like seinfeld in some ways, about nothing, but it isn't funny. juliette binoche was in a play when she was 25 and now she is asked to play the older woman in the play,an important play. the writer her friend has just died. she wrestles with this idea throughout the movie. she does not want to age and she sees herself as the younger woman,still. who can blame her.one day she is on top of a mountain, looking at the clouds and she can't find her assistant, just after they have just had a conversation about a person in the play going missing.i didn't like this and a lot of things are left unsaid as they go to the next scene ,in the film.
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Maxotics
5.0 out of 5 stars Unlike Birdman, this film doesn't cheapen itself
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2015
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I had some preconceptions about this film that delayed my enjoyment. So let me say that this is not an "All About Eve" storyline, though it is equally as committed to its characters. It is not dramatic. Some of the play-in-a-play reading sound pretentious. There is definitely a European feel to the film. Why do I feel this is a 5 star film, and Birdman a 1 star film?

The more I think about Birdman, the cheaper the after-taste. Clouds of Sils Maria ages well in my head. The more I think about the film, the more I get out of it.

One of the themes the film explores is the meaning of Art to each of us. The Stewart character is a lost, unhappy girl, with few friends who should be any Artist's best friend. She is smart, open-minded, generous. What does she find, when she works for one of the most successful actresses (in the film)? As mature and experienced as Binoche is, how deep is she really? (I'm talking about the character of course).

In the end, all art is private to each of us, and in a way, sad, because it isn't strong enough to make real-life bonds. The film is a beautiful character-study. I wouldn't call it an "entertainment". But I'll watch it again.
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E.R. "Doc" Wallace PhD
5.0 out of 5 stars Aging With Grace
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2015
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“Clouds of Sils Maria” is a well-acted think piece dealing with fame, aging, and replacement. Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is a famous Hollywood actress who began her career playing the nineteen year old lesbian Sigrid in a play-and-film production of “Maloja Snake”. Now twenty years later, she is asked to play the role of the successful yet lonely and vulnerable older woman, Helena, in the courtship. Cast in the role as young Sigrid is Chloe Grace Moretz, who plays the wild-child rising starlet Jo-Ann Ellis. In the role of Maria Ender’s personal assistant is Kirsten Stewart as the unhappy, argumentative Valentine. Although the film reported only $1.2 million at the box office, Rotten Tomatoes gave it a high 89% rating—rare for a film they rate. I found the story intriguing, with stellar performances all around. Well worth the rental fee for its beautiful Switzerland scenery alone, I found this film a delightful undertaking for a nice evening to be shared or watched alone (note: one brief nude scene). Kristin Stewart’s disappearance from the film while 80% finished stuck in my throat, yet it is typical of her generation’s penchant for ghosting relationships rather than ending them with closure. I give the film 5-stars out of five.
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Quetzal
5.0 out of 5 stars Decepcionada
Reviewed in Mexico on November 2, 2022
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No pude ver la película, ya no recuerdo si el CD no pertenece a la región o si no trae subtítulos....
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Tony
5.0 out of 5 stars Un beau film
Reviewed in France on November 4, 2016
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Pour moi ce film est fantastique, c'est un film vraiment puissant, qui prend tant d'angles différents et tant d'aspects différents pour faire quelque chose de spécial. Je l'ai vu pour la première fois au cinéma, mais je devais l'obtenir comme un cadeau pour ma femme (un professeur de cinéma), comme elle l'avait manqué.

Nous sommes d'accord qu'il ya quelque chose de très spécial dans la façon dont le film est fait. Le casting semble parfait pour le film, et l'histoire est très intelligent. Prendre une femme aussi regarder en arrière sur sa propre vie en revivant son propre rôle 20 ans plus tard, tout en essayant de lâcher prise.

Je recommande le film pour vous, mais également je vous conseille de le regarder 2 ou 3 fois pour vraiment comprendre et de prendre l'histoire complète de celui-ci, car il fonctionne définitivement à vous désorienter que vous allez le long, les vrilles et les virages, Laissez-vous incertain quelle direction le film va avancer.

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For me this film is fantastic, its a really powerful film, which takes so many different angles and so many different aspects to make something special. I first saw it in the cinema, but I had to get this as a present for my wife (a cinema teacher), as she had missed it.

We agree there is something very special in the way the film is done. The casting seems perfect for the film, and the story is very clever. Taking a woman too look back on her own life by reviving her own role 20 years later, whilst trying to let go.

I would recommend the film to you, but equally I would recommend to watch it 2 or 3 times to really understand and take the full story from it, as it definitely works to disorientate you as you go along, twists and turns, flips and rolls leave you unsure what direction the film will move forward.
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Veronica Blake
5.0 out of 5 stars Sils Maria: Kristen Stewart é la prima attrice americana ad aver vinto un César!
Reviewed in Italy on June 5, 2015
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Ho visto questo film gia due volte. Perché? Vi chiederete. Be' la risposta é semplice: é una pellicola che cattura, ti fa vivere i tormenti di Maria Enders, le sue lotte interiori. La storia é piena di sfumature che sfuggono ad uno spettatore distratto per questo bisogna lasciarsi catturare dall'intensità del soggetto e guardarlo attentamente. Juliette Binoche ha interpretato Maria con uno stile pazzesco, mai sopra le righe e con la sensibilità che la contraddistingue. Kristen Stewart...be' cosa dire su di lei? Con questo film ha dimostrato, se mai ce ne fosse bisogno, di avere talento da vendere. Ha prestato il suo volto intenso e bellissimo a Valentine la fedele assistente di Maria e l'ha interpretata sapientemente, rendendola vera con le sue fragilità e le sue opinioni che difende strenuamente: grazie a questo ruolo Kristen ha vinto il César, un riconoscimento davvero meritato!. Un'altra piacevole sorpresa é stata Chlöe Grace Moretzt che mi ha davvero colpita. Le locations del film sono spettacolari come il servizio di Amazon che ha consegnato il DVD nella data stabilita ed in condizioni perfette!
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2.0 out of 5 stars 純文学的！
Reviewed in Japan on August 1, 2016
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心理描写が丁寧に描かれていました。
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Trim Vis 44
4.0 out of 5 stars Intellectually and visually stimulating, emotionally barren
Reviewed in Canada on September 28, 2018
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This is a long and talky movie probing the issues surrounding the acceptance of ageing and the relinquishing of power, or clout and influence, to the next generation. The characters used to illustrate this are a famous actress, her personal assistant, and a starlet and media darling on the rise. Binoche, Moretz and even Stewart (who in previous films seemed rather a nonentity to me) give excellent performances. There is stunning scenery in the sequences shot in the Swiss mountains and overall the use of colour and backgrounds is pleasing to the eye. The script is intelligent, has humour and there are some heavily charged dramatic scenes. So why didn't I love the film? Personally, I found the characters not particularly likeable or interesting and, while I never found them boring, I also never cared about their fates; the film just never involved me emotionally (A fault of the writing not the actors). So if you find the subject matter interesting or you like pretty travelogues it's well worth watching, but if you want a movie about the stage and aging where the characters are emotionally involving you still can't beat "All About Eve"!
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