Clouds of Sils Maria is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Olivier Assayas, and starring Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, and Chloë Grace Moretz. The film is a German-French-Swiss co-production. It was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or in the main competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival on 23 May 2014, and also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and New York Film Festival. It won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best Film in December 2014 and a best supporting actress César Award (Equivalent to an Academy Award) for Kristen Stewart in February 2015. The first time every that an American actress won the Cesar Award.

Brilliant Film…True Euro Art, Very French and Visually Beautiful! Haven’t loved Kristen Stewart this much since David Fincher’s PANICK ROOM and with Juliette Binoche, what more could you ask for.

The story is richly textured with layers of thickening complications, crisscrossing trajectories and increasingly heated, warring motivations. Maria and Valentine travel to Wilhelm’s home in Sils Maria, an area in the Swiss Alps known for its haunting cloud formations and where, in 1881, the idea of eternal recurrence came to Nietzsche “6,000 feet beyond man and time,” as he wrote. As Maria confronts the agony of Wilhelm’s death, she feels the sting of her own mortality: a hot theater director, Klaus (Lars Eidinger), wants to cast Maria in a new production of “Maloja Snake,” this time as the older woman. He wants a young American blockbuster superstar, Jo-Ann (Chloë Grace Moretz, very good), for the part of the younger woman, the same role that catapulted Maria to fame.