Clouds of Sils Maria

Top-notch actress-driven cinema, according to DER SPIEGEL—by Olivier Assayas ("Between the Lines", "Personal Shopper") At the height of her career, internationally acclaimed actress Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is offered the chance to star in a revival of the play that marked her breakthrough 20 years ago. Back then, she had taken on the role of Sigrid, a seductive young woman who exerts a very special fascination on her superior, Helena, and ultimately drives her to suicide. Unlike 20 years ago, however, Maria Enders is not to play Sigrid this time, but the older Helena, according to the wishes of director Klaus Diesterweg (Lars Eidinger). Together with her assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart), she travels to Sils Maria to rehearse the play there, in the seclusion of the Alps. Jo-Ann Ellis (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal, is cast as Sigrid. “The story of a life and career crisis unfolds as a commentary on digital modernity that is as melancholic as it is ironic. The relationships between the characters are just as multifaceted as the complex (film) cultural references. - Worth seeing” (Lexikon des Internationalen Films)