Clouds of Sils Maria
2014 · Movie · R · 124 min · ★ 6.6 · 86% critics
A celebrated actress agrees to revisit the play that made her famous two decades earlier, but this time in a different role. As rehearsals begin and the lines between performance and real life start to blur, she’s forced to confront aging, shifting fame, and the uneasy mirror held up by a younger generation.
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Details
- Years
- 2014
- Release date
- 2014-08-20
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 86/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (814 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you like patient, dialogue-driven dramas about fame, aging, and blurred boundaries between art and life, with an ambiguous edge; Not for you if you want fast pacing or clear answers like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
Pros: layered character drama; strong lead performances; thoughtful art-vs-life themes | Cons: slow, talky pacing; ambiguous story threads; overlong stretches
Themes
- suicide
- mountain
- aging
- divorce
- alps mountains
- personal assistant
- gender ideals
Awards & recognition
- Louis Delluc Prize · 2014
- César Award — Best Supporting Actress
Cast & crew
Juliette Binoche
as Maria Enders
Kristen Stewart
as Valentine
Chloë Grace Moretz
as Jo-Ann Ellis
Lars Eidinger
as Klaus Diesterweg
Johnny Flynn
as Christopher Giles
Brady Corbet
as Piers Roaldson
Hanns Zischler
as Henryk Wald
Angela Winkler
as Rosa Melchior
Nora Waldstätten
as Actress in Sci-Fi movie
Aljoscha Stadelmann
as Urs Kobler
Directed by Olivier Assayas