Maria Enders, an actress performs in a stage adaptation of one of her earliest films. She visits Sils Maria in the Alps with her assistant to rehearse. ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ hit theaters on April 10.
‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ was rated 6.8/10 by 7,520 users on IMDb. The film has a Metascore of 79 and 7.2 User Score on Metacritic. It was rated 89% on the Tomatometer at Rotten Tomatoes. Its average rating is 7.6/10 out of 99 reviews counted. It has 88 Fresh Tomatoes and 11 Rotten Tomatoes. Its Audience Score is 71% with an average rating of 3.7/5 out of 5,913 user ratings.
The film stars Chloë Grace Moretz as Jo-Ann Ellis, Kristen Stewart as Valentine, Juliette Binoche as Maria Enders, Lars Eidinger as Kaus Diesterweg, Johnny Flynn as Christopher Giles, and Angela Winkler as Rosa Melchior. It was written and directed by Oliver Assayas.
Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes:
“The three women in "Clouds of Sils Maria" love, talk and move, move, move, sharing lives, trading roles and performing parts. The lives they lead are messy and indeterminate, but each woman's life belongs to her,” wrote Manohla Dargis from New York Times.
“A multi-layered, femme-driven meta-fiction that pushes all involved - including next-gen starlets Kristen Stewart and Chloe Grace Moretz - to new heights,” wrote Peter Debruge from Variety.
“A haunting look at the anxieties of a profession where blurring the line between fantasy and reality is both part of the job description and a vocational hazard,” wrote Chris Nashawaty from Entertainment Weekly.
“It’s about all women, and the conflicting dual roles they are expected to play in life, more so than men: nurturer/fighter, mother/lover, submissive/dominant and so on,” wrote Peter Howell from Toronto Star.
“Binoche, on whom the camera affectionately lingers, makes herself achingly vulnerable. Though the film feels at times a bit cloudy and enigmatic, it's often fascinating in its juxtapositions,” wrote Moira MacDonald from Seattle Times.