Clouds of Sils Maria cheats, tricks, and blindsides its audience, but this is only a good thing in director Olivier Assayas’ hands; his latest movie represents cinema in, many ways, its purest form.
Juliette Binoche plays Maria, an ageing actor whose career is in flux. Having severed herself from Hollywood, she seeks something more fulfilling – and as chance happens, an opportunity presents itself when the theatre and film director who boosted Maria’s career is found dead, and a…
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