Clouds of Sils Maria


Clouds of Sils Maria known simply as Sils Maria in some territories is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, and starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chlo Grace Moretz. The film is a FrenchGermanSwiss coproduction. Principal photography took place from August to October 2013, with most of the filming taking place in Sils Maria, Switzerland. The film follows an established middleaged actress Binoche who is cast as the older lover in a romantic lesbian drama opposite an upstart young starlet Moretz. She is overcome with personal insecurities and professional jealousiesall while sexual tension simmers between her and her personal assistant Stewart.

Maria Enders Juliette Binoche is a famous international movie star and stage actress. She travels with a loyal young American assistant, Valentine Kristen Stewart. She owes her career to having been cast, overyears earlier, in both the play and film versions of Maloja Snake by Wilhelm Melchior, a now elderly Swiss playwright. The play centers on the tempestuous relationship between a callous young girl Sigrid, a part that made then18yearold Maria famous and a vulnerable older woman Helena who is eventually driven to suicide after Sigrid takes advantage of her, squeezes everything she can out of her, then dumps her.While traveling to Zurich to accept an award on behalf of Wilhelm, and planning to visit him the following day at his house in Sils Maria a remote settlement in the Alps Maria learns of his sudden death. His widow Rosa later confides in her that Wilhelms death was suicide and that he had been terminally ill. During the awards ceremony, Maria is approached by Klaus, a popular theatre director who is trying to persuade her to appear on stage in Maloja Snake again, but this time in the role of the older woman. ........

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