Metrograph

Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart come together in perfect disharmony as a fiftysomething French actress and her twentysomething American personal assistant, cooped up together at a house in the Swiss Alps while La Binoche rehearses a return to the serious-minded stage. A meditation on the changing entertainment industry, and as such a sort-of companion piece to Assayas’s Irma Vep, the sensual and swooningly cerebral Clouds of Sils Maria functions as a meditation on both actresses’ careers, on generational schisms, and on the relationship between “pop” and “art” performance.

Distributor: IFC Films