An established actress rehearses for a role as an older woman, opposite a young starlet, with help from her assistant in Clouds of Sils Maria, starring Juliette Binoche, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Kristen Stewart, respectively. Stewart has already made history with her performance, but what do critics have to say?
- "As stirring as Binoche is as Maria, Stewart is breathtaking as Valentine," writes Betsy Sharkey at the Los Angeles Times. Brought together by writer-director Olivier Assayas, the pair are "mesmerizing to watch." The film as a whole is a "richly imperfect piece about the vagaries to be found in a life spent working in film" and the ways in which people re-encounter their past selves, Sharkey writes. It has some loose ends, but it's one worth watching.
- The film touches on "female friendships, female rivalries, tabloid notoriety, the loss of privacy in the Internet age, high culture versus low, and, of course, cinema itself," writes Manohla Dargis at the New York Times. Stewart shines as she "gives herself completely over to her role" and "easily holds both her own and the screen ... delivering the kind of emotionally translucent performance that first got her noticed" in Into the Wild.
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