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| CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA movie poster |
The Travelling Toe and movie flick friend, with trepidation and fear in our hearts, hit the toll roads to take us to see a film in Plano. It is considered an "indie" film and was not showing in our neck of the woods so we had to seek it out at the Angelika Movie Theater in Plano. The movie we saw was "Clouds of Sils Maria" staring Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart and Chole Grace Moretz.
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| Juliette Binoche |
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| Kristen Stewart |
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| Chole Grace Moretz |
The synopsis of the movie is as follows:
When renowned actress, Maria Enders (Binoche), is cast opposite a young starlet (Moretz) Maria must come to terms with being a middle-aged actress in a youth-obsessed industry. Retreating into the mountains with her assistant (Stewart) she prepares for the most important role of her life.
The Travelling Toe found that the majority of the dialogue to be somewhat egotistic and boring. Also we both found the movie to be slightly disjointed. Maria expounds about her feeling one way but then takes action in the opposite way. There is one scene that is still confusing and never explained. It is when the assistant played by Stewart, just disappears in mid scene in an apparent show of defiance with the strong opinions Maria has regarding the acting abilities of the young starlet as well as what the main focus of her own part should be.
Not being a fan of Ms. Stewart's acting ability, or lack therefore, she was very good in her role of the supporting assistant and actually did more than just sigh, pout, squint her eyes and thrown her hair around - she actually seemed to embrace this role and did a nice job of it. Ms. Binoche was brilliant in her role...you loved her, you worried about her, and cared what was going to happen to her. Ms. Moretz played the young starlet who has little acting ability and lots of publicity courtesy of the paparazzi .
The very best thing about this movie was the spectacular scenery of the Swiss alps. There really is a town in Switzerland named Sils Maria.
The Travelling Toe gives this movie one middle toe up with the chance of a storm cloud racing down the mountain range.
Disclaimer: The Travelling Toe is not a profession movie critic and any opinions expressed are for entertainment purposes only.
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