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Wednesday, December 17, 2014
A theater diva and her young assistant rehearsing a new piece. In the seclusion of the Alps it comes to the battle of the generations. Adversaries in the drama “The clouds of Sils Maria” are Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart.
The French actress Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is devastated. Her mentor, the legendary playwright William Melchior, died unexpectedly. Actually a really poor moment for the offer, which will be submitted to the acclaimed thespian of the rising star director Klaus Diesterweg (Lars Eidinger). 20 years ago, Mary was celebrated with the role of the young, seductive Sigrid in a stage play Melchior their breakthrough. Now she is the older Helena embody in Diesterweg revival, a businesswoman expires Sigrid and disappointed love commits suicide. The now famous mainly by scandals Ho llywood starlet Jo-Ann Ellis (Chloë Grace Moretz) is for the part of Sigrid just provided.
Mary, who is in an ugly divorce in the middle, accepts the offer despite serious concerns to. With her young assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart) it takes place in a lonely estate in the Swiss Alps back. The experienced team starts with the samples. The idyll is soon over. For Maria joins the new staging professional a circle she feels increasingly as a check.
Clash of Generations
The actress also two decades later identified especially with the young, desirable , superior Sigrid. For the weak in their eyes Helena she has nothing but contempt. While Mary is confronted in the samples on a daily basis with their age and personal defeats, the strong-willed Valentine takes the role of Sigrid. Inevitably shift in the relationship between the two women, the balance of power. Maria is struggling more and more desperate to their dominance.
“The clouds of Sils Maria” seems at times like the film version of a play at. But in fact it is an original story that the ratio of Juliette Binoche to writer-director Olivier Assayas (“Carlos – The Jackal”) reflects. The former film critic of the legendary magazine “Cahiers du Cinéma” had written at the beginning of his career with director André Téchiné the script for the drama “Rendez-vous” (1984). In addition to Jean-Louis Trintignant, the 20-year-old Binoche starred in the lead role.
“Even then, it was about the unseen and to what does a young actress to be to completely merge with their role “said Assayas remembered. The impetus for their third collaboration was now Binoche. “It was Juliette, who first had the intuitive feeling that there was a missed opportunity in our common history, or rather a missed film,” says the director, who then wrote the screenplay for “The Cloud of Sils Maria” <. / p>
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The result is an intimate play-like drama that fits perfectly into its brittleness in the harsh alpine scenery of the Engadine. The film moves along with all deep psychological considerations identity, power, age, and gender roles also face the inherent analog character sincere emotions and interpersonal encounters. Starlet Jo-Ann is her Hollywood blockbusters and their YouTube archived for eternity scandal appearances worlds away from the secluded mountain lodge or volatile, each and every evening created immediacy of theater.
More aboutThe impending feuilleton snobbery and age conservatism is Assayas by Kristen Stewart’s character, the voice of a young generation who perceive themselves cultural value is not measured in the number of induced forehead wrinkles and can find themselves in a seemingly soulless fantasy movies yet truthfulness. Stewart presents itself as quite worthy opponent of t he great Juliette Binoche. Also starring Hanns Hisser, Angela Winkler and Nora are visible from forest sites.
“The clouds of Sils Maria” starts on December 18, 2014 in the German cinemas.
Source: n-tv.de
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