Review of Clouds of Sils Maria (2014) by Reini U — 15 Nov 2014

It's a fine hommage to old-school acting and filmmaking, and esp. the powerful role of the assistant, and Kristen Stewart and Lars Eidinger are just natural superstars in their screen presence. Even if Stewart has to wear glasses. But and unconvincing storyline about an actors problem meta-topic without any humor and an unconvincing fatal attraction makes it not that interesting and engaging, even if true, and Assayas is still not a very capable filmmaker. He is together with Spike Lee the only A-list director with still major craft problems. Here the editing in some scenes is amateurish sloppy and the actors shouldn't be caught watching to the director in scenes. Not once, twice.

But I would forgiven that if the ending would have made any sense.