2/27/2024 0 Comments Juliette ring fire and brillianceI was using many elements, not so much of her own personality but of how she approaches parts and how she works. It’s not just that I wrote the film for her -I wrote the film about her. Well, I suppose that I was drawn to it by the inner logic of the film, because I imagined the film based on Juliette Binoche. So the movie is like a reflection on time and a reinterpretation of personal history, both real and imagined. I’ve previously described it as a, “layered, metatextual look at time, desire, control and self through the immersion of role playing. If it sounds very meta, that’s because it is. Chloe Moretz plays a type of Kristen Stewart figure: a talented but troubled teen star who is hounded by the celebrity media, given to bad behavior and is poised to star opposite Binoche in the play. Kristen Stewart plays her personal assistant who is put in the difficult position of employee but also as a friend and occasionally as adversary. This time she’s asked to play the part of the aged woman driven to madness by her manipulative younger seductress. In the movie, Binoche plays an aging actress who is asked to star in a revival of the play that made her famous. It’s also a mysteriously moody movie, light on plot and answers but intricate with intimate and complex character dynamics that are constantly revealing fascinating emotional layers (not unlike Fassbinder’s chamber play “ The Tears Of Petra Von Kant”). His latest film “ Clouds of Sils Maria” is very much personal and metatexual in some ways, the movie is concerned with his relationship with Juliette Binoche-with whom he’s a friend, but up until 2008’s “ Summer Hours” he hadn’t worked with in twenty three years- and is a story examining how we confront the world around us as we age. or one long five and half hour experience) is on the surface a biopic of a famous terrorist, but is implicitly a lament of 1960s idealism curdling 1970s nihilism -a cultural shift the 60 year old filmmaker experienced personally. His three part miniseries for French television “ Carlos” (presented as three films in the U.S. His coming of age tale “ Something in the Air” traces the student youth riots of Paris in 1968, but is also partly autobiographical. But his films, often about outsiders or marginalized figures, are both personal and referential. Perhaps that’s because there’s a restless eclecticism and questioning at its core. French filmmaker Olivier Assayas’ career is hard to define.
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