Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) on Netflix
Twenty years after Maloja Snake made her a star, Maria Enders reluctantly takes the role of Helena in its revival. She prepares in the Alps with her assistant, Valentine, opposite Jo-Ann Ellis.
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Plot summary
Maria Enders is an international actress who travels with her assistant, Valentine. Twenty years earlier, Wilhelm Melchior's play Maloja Snake gave her her first success: she played Sigrid, a young woman who takes advantage of Helena, her older lover and employer. Maria is on her way to collect an award for him when she hears that he has died. The theater director Klaus Diesterweg wants her for a London revival of the play, this time as Helena, and she agrees. She goes to Wilhelm's house in Sils Maria, in the Alps, to work on the part with Valentine. Her co-star is Jo-Ann Ellis, a nineteen-year-old American actress whose public scandals, which Valentine finds online, are the opposite of what Klaus described. Maria's divorce and the role itself leave her uneasy.
Cast
- Stuart Manashilas Maria's Agent
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Kristen Stewart's win for best supporting actress made her the first American actress to win a César, and the third American actor after Adrien Brody in 2003 and Christopher Lambert in 1985. The film itself drew six César nominations, among them best film and best director.
- Chanel made its debut in film financing with Clouds of Sils Maria, supplying the actresses with clothes, jewelry, accessories and makeup and being scripted in as Maria's provider. Chanel also paid part of the budget so Olivier Assayas could shoot on 35-mm film instead of digitally.
- Olivier Assayas wrote the screenplay of Clouds of Sils Maria with Juliette Binoche in mind, and worked elements of her own life into the plot.
- Assayas described the film's fictional play Maloja Snake as a "condensed, brutalized version" of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which was later adapted as a film of the same name.
