Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

paul2001sw-1 Olivier Assays makes talky films about affluent people; but typically, they're thoughtful and interesting. 'The Clouds of Sils Maria' is, I believe, his first movie in English; and focuses on an actress, played by Juliette Binoche. She's about to revisit the play that made her name, but in a different, older role: this brings into light her own ambiguous feelings about ageing (and about the way that society views an older woman); there are also parallels between the themes of the play and her own real-life relationship with her assistant. It's very urbane, but one's sympathy for Binoche's character is limited by the fact that she is so damn spoiled - she's not especially diva-esque, but she nonetheless is surrounded at all times by a (small) entourage, though often they have their own motivations for "helping". One can wonder if her state of disquiet isn't just the by-product of being considered unusually important by others, a manufactured crisis in a pedicured life. Overall, I liked the film, though it lacks the emotional connection of Assayas's best.

anyes75 Did the director of this movie have a plan when he built this pretentious and "décousue" story? Like most French movies that pretend to be artistic this one is terribly boring and one wonders why the writer/ director has Miss Binoche burst into laughing other than using Miss Binoche's famous laugh. Is this movie a story about ageing actresses or a biography of Juliette Binoche? We get it, actresses have personal assistans and photographers and pretend to live a glamorous life. The only thing interesting in this pitiful movie was the comparison of the ageing actress with the clouds that predict bad weather in the Alps chain. The actress is so into her role that she becomes her character, at the beginning Binoche looks attractive with beautiful hair and when she is rehearsing for her role she has short hair and a duller complexion and looks older. Although I did not enjoy the movie I watched it to the end, sometimes fastforwarding to make it less painful and to see if there was another point to the movie...but no...

cyberalpine Ambiguity is the key world of this film. You are the major actor in the sense that your interpretation makes the film. Each scene is so ambiguous that you can always interpret it in various manners so in the end _you_ are the director. When Maria and Val work on the text, rehearse the play, the feelings are so mingled that you are the one who decide if they are those of Helena- Sigrid or rather Maria-Val. Reality is entangled. I loved the Alps hiking shots and overall the mysterious Maloja snake. I would have rated it a 9 to the Writer-Director Olivier Assayas but reduced it to a 8 because I was disappointed in Juliette Binoche's performance. She is usually better than in this film, it is as if she didn't feel like acting this character, a bit like what happens in the film itself. At several occasions her laugh is artificial and fake. She is obviously ill at ease in this character, which proves what I wrote before about entangled reality between the film itself and the play prepared in the film. I'm not sure I am very clear but those who have seen and felt/perceived the movie as I, will understand.

Jamie Carrick As soon as I noticed that Juliette Binoche was teaming up with Kristen Stewart for this movie, I was enticed. Two talented actresses with the opportunity to bring a great script to life. It was highly naturalistic at places, which I think played to the strengths of the performers.Juliette's "Maria Enders" was a complex, fascinating character who is faced with an opportunity to take part in a revival of the very piece that made her career...only in a role that is completely opposite. During a personal tragedy, she begins working on her character, even though she already dislikes her. It's a wonderful performance by a seasoned actress and I expected nothing less from her.As for Kristen Stewart, I was blown away by how much she has grown as an actress. As with somebody tied to a popular literary figure, Kristen hadn't quite managed to make it out of the Twilight spotlight...until now. She plays Maria's assistant "Valentine", who gives Maria a youthful outlook on life, as well as her honest opinions. Val should have been two-dimensional, if not for the incredibly authentic portrayal by Kristen Stewart. It wasn't a performance which fought for the spotlight, but it was a fully fleshed out supporting turn which is arguably the best of her career so far. She shows a lot of promise for her future now that Twilight is behind her.Some of the landscaping shots were incredibly beautiful, showing the scenery at its finest.One of my few complaints was with Chloe Grace Moretz in the role of Jo-Anne Ellis. In a part that wasn't particularly highlighted, Moretz didn't do a lot to make it memorable, as with the likes of other performers who do a lot with little material. Her portrayal of the controversial Hollywood starlet Jo-Anne didn't bring a lot to the screen. It merely seemed like she was playing herself at times. She was severely outclassed by Binoche and Stewart.Overall, I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I was going to and I recommend it, even just to see Binoche and Stewart as a proficient on-screen duo.