Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 10/8/15] | Marco Albanese @ Stanze di Cinema [Italian]
- Excerpt: Nonostante le ottime interpretazioni della Binoche, di Cloe Moretz e soprattutto della Stewart – che per la prima volta sembra davvero capace di recitare un ruolo – Sils Maria rimane un’occasione colta solo a metà.
- Chris Barsanti @ Film Racket
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Josh Brunsting @ The CriterionCast
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: Olivier Assayas utiliza la reflexión de una actriz madura sobre su propia carrera y su éxito, para hacer un ensayo sobre lo que significa el paso del tiempo y cómo afecta nuestra vanidad y nuestros actos.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: one of the truly great films about acting, “All About Eve” refracted through the lens of Bergman’s “Persona,” squared.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: Every layer and point of self-reference serves as a reminder that it’s upon the audience to discern significance from the material.
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: Olivier Assayas’ ‘Clouds of Sils Maria’ is an intelligent and incredibly self-reflexive film, featuring stellar performances by Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz.
- Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: Clouds of Sils Maria belongs to a small battery of recent films, including Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s Oscar-winning Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur (both 2014), which meditate on the process of actors creating new realities as they wrestle with the purity of the text and the complexity of existence. The corollary to his recurring theme is that Olivier Assayas knows that however much artists might wish it and be facilely in love with the notion of art and life conjoining, it never does.
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: When Val pleads with her employer to look past the veneer of a rising starlet’s goofy superhero role to the talent beneath, you can actually hear Kristen Stewart justifying her own work in the Twilight movies. She is every bit Binoche’s match in these conversations.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Olivier Assayas creates a fascinating study surrounded by the Swiss Alps with knockout acting
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Donald Jay Levit @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Emanuel Levy @ www.emanuellevy.com
- Excerpt: Olivier Assayas intrguing anatomy of the insecurities built into the life of a middle-aged actress, beautifully played by Juliette Binoche
- Stefan Pape @ HeyUGuys
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: Maria is constantly laughing at the pop culture that Val passionately defends; by the end, it is slithering around her like the sinuous clouds snaking up the Maloja Valley.
- Don Simpson @ Smells Like Screen Spirit
- Excerpt: Clouds of Sils Maria by Olivier Assayas masterfully surveys how age can inform and transform the female perspective.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: A probing, illuminating rumination on art versus life, present versus past, and youth versus maturity, all craftily combined to invite reflection as well as admiration.
- Sarah Ward @ Concrete Playground
- Andrew Wyatt @ Gateway Cinephile
- Excerpt: What’s most impressive about Clouds is how Assayas and his performers create multiple levels of conflict within a narratively simple scenario.
