{"id":11634,"date":"2014-05-23T23:39:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2014-05-23T23:39:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T15:39:23","slug":"fiction-and-reality-mingle-for-kristen-stewart-in-sils-maria-at-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/05\/23\/fiction-and-reality-mingle-for-kristen-stewart-in-sils-maria-at-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiction and reality mingle for Kristen Stewart in \u2018Sils Maria\u2019 at Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kristen Stewart. Photo by Sgt. Michael Connors \/ Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

CANNES, France\u2014Playing an assistant to a famous actress, Kristen Stewart gave the Cannes Film Festival a self-referential and immediately acclaimed performance on the festival\u2019s final day.<\/span><\/p>\n

Olivier Assayas\u2019 \u201cClouds of Sils Maria\u201d premiered Friday at Cannes, revealing a new dimension of Stewart, acting in a European production alongside Juliette Binoche. As the cell-phone-tethered assistant to an international, revered veteran actress named Maria Enders (played by Binoche), Stewart\u2019s character is full of ironies.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the two arrive in front of a sea of photographers, the paparazzi ignore Stewart, who rushes to open the door for her boss. Toggling through prospective roles for Enders, the \u201cTwilight\u201d star notes one that has werewolves \u201cfor some reason.\u201d And retelling tabloid stories about a famous, scandal-plagued Hollywood starlet (played by Chloe Grace Moretz), she defends it without a wink: \u201cIt\u2019s celebrity news. It\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFor Kristen to play the assistant was hilarious,\u201d said Binoche. \u201cThose kind of details she knows more than I do, in a way, because she\u2019s really in a world of paparazzi and all that. We had a lot of discussions about that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Actors often come to Cannes to unveil a more artistically ambitious version of themselves. Stewart\u2019s \u201cTwilight\u201d co-star Robert Pattinson also drew raves earlier at the festival for his performances David Michod\u2019s \u201cThe Rover\u201d and David Cronenberg\u2019s \u201cMaps to the Stars.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stewart, who was in competition once before at Cannes with 2012\u2019s \u201cOn the Road,\u201d wasn\u2019t at the morning press conference with Assayas and her co-stars Friday, but was expected to walk the red carpet at the film\u2019s evening premiere. It\u2019s the final film to screen at the 11-day festival, with the Palme d\u2019Or to be handed out Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n

Portraits of actresses have been a mainstay at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival. It opened with Nicole Kidman playing Grace Kelly in \u201cGrace of Monaco,\u201d a critically savaged melodrama about Kelly marrying into Monaco royalty. In the Hollywood satire \u201cMaps to the Stars,\u201d Julianne Moore plays a hysterically desperate aging actress in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cClouds of Sils Maria\u201d also features an actress reconciling herself to the passage of time. While Enders and her assistant live remotely in the Swiss Alps, Enders contemplates taking the older role in a play about two actresses, one older and one younger. Twenty years earlier, the younger role was hers, but in this production, it\u2019s to be played by an upstart not so unlike Stewart.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the many layers of fiction and reality in making \u201cClouds of Sils Maria,\u201d co-star Lars Eidinger, who plays a filmmaker, said: \u201cThe whole thing was kind of surreal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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