Kristen Stewart and Olivier Assayas appeared on the French show C à Vous to discuss their film Personal Shopper. It's dubbed in English and French, so I understand a little bit of it lol. But it looked interesting, and it was so funny to see Kristen's reactions to her Cesar win!! Never gets old!!
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Kristen Stewart's Clouds of Sils Maria co-star Juliette Binoche described how it was like for Kristen to win "Best Supportive Actress" at the Cesar Awards. Watch the conversation in French below, and see the translation right after.
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Awards Daily: Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria was the best movie about women you never saw last year. The story centers on two women in the middle of a publicity blitz as the older and established actress, Juliette Binoche, contemplates taking on a part in a play she made her name on as an emerging actress at 19. Back then, though, she played the young ingenue. Now they want her to play the opposite character, the matron, who generates a simmering sexual dynamic with the younger actress. This time around, Chloe Grace Moretz, a Lindsay Lohan type public figure is taking on the younger part. Kristen Stewart plays Binoche’s assistant who manages her life, keeps her updated on the changing world around her, and runs lines with her. The play within a play begins to bleed into the actual story so that, at some point, the lines become so blurred you can’t really tell what’s real and what isn’t.
Kristen Stewart more than holds her own with Binoche, and very nearly steals the movie. It’s a performance that won her the prestigious Cesar — the first American actress in 50 years to accomplish such a feat. Stewart’s assistant, she tells me in an interview last week, is many things to the Binoche character, including a mother figure. She also says there was sexual tension there, something I detected but wasn’t sure was intentional. Of course it would be intentional, given that the play within a play is about an older woman and a younger woman involved in an affair. As they read lines to each other, the plays seems to sometimes say what they themselves can’t because of various barriers, like Stewart is Binoche’s employee. Stewart’s character is also involved with a younger male character, but that world is kept off screen, something the film hints at but never directly confronts.
There are three women in this story – Moretz, Stewart and Binoche – each at different stages of their lives and careers. Moretz recalls (almost but not quite) a younger Stewart, whose private life behavior took on a life of its own in the press. As such, we see Moretz portrayed one way by the press, then we encounter someone who is not like that at all. Each woman dwells in the visible and the invisible, with Binoche being the one who matters in the earlier part of the film, with the Stewart character receding. When Moretz shows up, Binoche – and all of her fame and glory — seems to then disappear.
I loved this movie so much. It is so rare to see a filmmaker sink in and invest in women as though they are actual people with their own thoughts, careers, whole lives. I spoke very briefly to Stewart about this film. I was given a very strict 10 minute window, though honestly I could have talked to her for hours. She’s a smart and focused young woman whose choices in the films she stars in are careful, intelligent, and deliberate. I didn’t get nearly enough time to cover everything – and I wasted WAY TOO MUCH TIME telling her stuff about myself, which is embarrassing. So, sorry about that.
Still, I thought you all might like to hear the interview instead of my transcribing it. But you have to make a deal with me that you will disregard all of the dumb things I say, of which there are many. I am terrible at interviews which is why I hardly ever do them.
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"Congratulations on the Ang Lee movie, Happy Birthday in a week from your fans, they wanna me to say that, and bless you for taking care of animals the way you do. And you're just fantastic, and good luck on your future." Awwww! A very sweet conclusion! :) ♥
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Turns out putting together one French filmmaker, one international grande dame and two young American stars makes for lightning in a bottle. "Clouds of Sils Maria" is an electric combination of self-awareness and emotional exploration told via a story that touches on time, celebrity and meteorological phenomena.
Writer-director Olivier Assayas and actress Juliette Binoche have something of a history, because Assayas' first produced feature screenplay was co-writing André Téchiné's 1985 film "Rendez-vous," which made a star of Binoche. They would not work together again until Binoche appeared in Assayas' 2008 ensemble family drama "Summer Hours." After that Binoche asked Assayas to write something for her to star in.
He honored her request and came back with "Clouds of Sils Maria," a slippery treatise on identity and artistic persona and the passage of time. Binoche plays Maria Enders, a famous actress who is about to appear onstage in a revival of the play that made her a star. Yet now she will take on the role of a fading older woman while her former part as the seductive young ingénue will go to a tabloid-notorious starlet (Chloë Grace Moretz). Enders' devoted assistant Valentine (Kristen Stewart) struggles to keep her boss on course while also trying to maintain her own sense of self.
"We're friends, but it's not like I know so much of her," said Assayas of Binoche at last fall's Toronto International Film Festival. "What is Juliette's day-to-day life? I have no idea. Some part of Maria is based on the Juliette I know, part of it is based on what I fantasize.
"At some point I realized that one layer of the film was that this is a movie where the identity of the actors is always present," he said. "Usually in movies you forget about them, you're trying to erase as much as you can of whatever the actor is, so that the audience focuses on the character. Here it's the opposite."
The film, mostly in English and opening in Los Angeles on April 10, becomes an inside-out variation on "All About Eve" or perhaps a female-centered version of "Birdman," drawing not only on the characters within the drama but also very much on public perceptions of Binoche, Stewart and Moretz. The actresses boldly put themselves, their personas and what audiences know (or think they know) about them into the film itself. That much Binoche, an Oscar winner for "The English Patient" seen recently in the big-budget "Godzilla," was not expecting.
"I always liked him without really knowing him," said Binoche of Assayas while also in Toronto. "So in a way provoking him to write and do a film together, it was like saying, 'Here I am. Are you ready?'
"I think he wrote this, and after that it was like, 'This is my gift, and now you give back.'"
After premiering at last year's Cannes Film Festival, the movie went on to a number of prestigious fall festivals, including Toronto, New York and Los Angeles' AFI Fest. Then in February, Stewart became the first American actress to win at the Cesar awards, France's Oscars, picking up a supporting actress prize. (Stewart has another permanent reminder of the role — she had a tattoo put on her forearm for the film inked for real.)
"The whole experience has opened me up to a world that has been undiscovered," Stewart said recently by phone in Los Angeles. "There's a willingness to risk that you don't find in American movies. They don't feel planned, they feel accomplished and discovered. It opened something up in me, it was very exciting. I've been working since I was a kid, and this is fresh and exciting and why I love to do it."
As the film was coming together, there was one casting configuration in which Mia Wasikowska was to play Valentine and Stewart would take on the other role of, in her words, "the super-scandalous famous person" that would more directly play on her background as star of the "Twilight" franchise. Yet once the cast settled into place with Binoche and Stewart as star and assistant, things forged ahead.
"There was this really interesting dynamic between Juliette and Kristen that was completely unexpected," said Assayas. "I had no idea it would go that far or they would build on it that strongly. It was something I was a spectator of and gradually encouraged. As long as it didn't break, let's push it further and further."
In a scene in a casino bar in the Swiss Alps, Binoche did a spontaneous spit-take at something Stewart said; in another moment Stewart suddenly touched Binoche's face in a disarmingly tender way.
"It's the kind of thing Kristen would come up with and do it once. Never twice," said Assayas. "She's a very fascinating actress, I must say. I don't think I've ever worked with an actress who has such a consciousness of her body. She has this incredible knowledge of her movements, like a dancer.
"At the same time she completely opens up and could get into improvised moments. Which is something that doesn't come naturally to her. It's really something that Juliette really brought out of her."
In an electrifying series of scenes that form the center of the film, Binoche and Stewart are rehearsing the play at a secluded mountain cabin. It can become unclear if they are speaking as the characters in the play, their roles in the movie, or most intriguingly, as their actual selves, confronting the realities of acting and celebrity.
In the role of Valentine, with offhand remarks about teen audiences, werewolf movies and the craft of acting in franchise films, there are moments Stewart in particular seems to be directly addressing the audience regarding her own feelings on the conflict between celebrity and art. In a sense the character is able to say things that the actress playing her cannot.
"I'm not allowed to say them," Stewart agreed, "but somebody on the outside, they're allowed to speak candidly about something because it's not personal to them. So they won't be condemned for whatever projected ungratefulness. You're standing behind something, but it's very thin, so it's like, 'I still think this.'
"And by the way, I had nothing to do with the words, they were fully written before I ever had the part. And Olivier didn't plan on finding someone who has this personal experience with what she's commenting on, it just happened that way. You can see in those scenes I'm stifling joyous laughter."
That quicksilver sense of capturing something rare informs the movie all the way through. In a breathtaking moment, Binoche is alone on a mountainside in Switzerland's Engadin Valley as the Maloja Snake, an unusual cloud formation, moves through below.
It's easy to imagine a film production waiting on a hillside for days and days for the weather to be just so, though modern audiences may also naturally assume the shot was created through digital effects. Assayas allows there was some trickery involved; while Binoche feels that in the spirit of the movie it is best to leave some things uncertain.
"I'm not going to reveal the secrets of the snake. I'm not revealing the truth of it," she said. "You have to stay with the poetry of thinking that it's just the right moment. The feminine is a mystery. It has to be."
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Kristen Stewart made history for her Sils Maria win. She was the first American to win an acting award from the French Academy. She expressed love for French film during her speech and when speaking with press.
"There is a great divide between what motivates people to make films in the States and to compare it to what motivates people to make films here, and I kinda prefer it here," she said.
"If you're not scared of something it's not worth it. It takes a pretty unique American filmmaker to do something and to do it scared and to do it anyway, and here that's what it's really about and what film lives and breathes here," she said.
She hinted at another project with Sils Maria director Olivier Assayas, saying: "This is where I feel and I can do my best and be happiest, so it's huge," Stewart said of the award. She also credited her winning performance to co-star and best actress nominee Julliette Binoche. "I'm standing in front of a room where I don't have to explain the power of Juliette. Everything in the movie is a reflection of her."
Kristen will attend and present at the 40th César Awards ceremony, that will took place on 20 February 2015, at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
Presenters:
Abd Al Malick, Pierre Arditi, Edouard Baer, Nathalie Baye, Leïla Bekhti, Juliette Binoche, Dany Boon, Zabou Breitman, Guillaume Canet, Cécile Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Etienne Daho, Cécile de France, Stéphane de Groodt, Pierre Deladonchamps, Léa Drucker, André Dussolier, Eric Elmosnino, Guillaume Gallienne, Franck Gastambide, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Julie Gayet, JOEYSTARR, Sandrine Kiberlain, Cédric Klapisch, Charlotte Le Bon, Jalil Lespert, Alex Lutz Félix Moati, Géraldine Nakache, Pierre Niney, Sabrina Ouazani, Sean Penn, Denis Podalydes, Céline Sallette, Joann Sfar, Laura Smet, Kristen Stewart, Sylvie Testud, Lambert Wilson.
Red carpet starts at 6:30pm CET/ 5.30pm GMT/ 12:30pm ET/ 9:30am PT/ Saturday 4.30am AEST.
Cesar Awards airs at 9pm CET/ 8pm GMT/ 3pm ET/ 12pm PT/ Saturday 7am AEST.
"Jamais autant de stars n’auront été réunies! Toutes ont accepté d’honorer le 40ème anniversaire de la fête la plus emblématique du cinéma français. Présentée par Edouard BAER et présidée par Danny BOON, cette quarantième Nuit des César promet des instants de télévision uniques, un évènement exceptionnel, magique et glamour, en compagnie d’artistes généreux, émouvants et talentueux du cinéma d’aujourd’hui.
VENDREDI 20 FÉVRIER 2015
SUR CANAL+, EN CLAIR, EN DIRECT ET EN EXCLUSIVITÉ,
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Pour remettre les trophées aux artistes et professionnels du cinéma:
Abd AL MALIK, Pierre ARDITI, Edouard BAER, Nathalie BAYE, Leïla BEKHTI, JulietteBINOCHE, Danny BOON, Zabou BREITMAN, Guillaume CANET, Cécile CASSEL, Marion COTILLARD, Etienne DAHO, Cécile DE FRANCE, Stéphane DE GROODT, Pierre DELADONCHAMPS, Léa DRUCKER, André DUSSOLIER, Eric ELMOSNINO, Guillaume GALLIENNE, Franck GASTAMBIDE, Jean Paul GAULTIER, Julie GAYET, JOEYSTARR, Sandrine KIBERLAIN, Cédric KLAPISCH, Charlotte LE BON, Jalil LESPERT, Alex LUTZ, Félix MOATI, Géraldine NAKACHE, Pierre NINEY, Sabrina OUAZANI, Sean PENN, Denis PODALYDES, Céline SALLETTE, Joann SFAR, Laura SMET, Kristen STEWART, Sylvie TESTUD, Lambert WILSON."
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Reminder: The 40th annual César will air live February 20 at 8:50pm CET on Canal+, and will take place at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
Special 'Best Movie' Poster and Kristen's 2015 Presentation Video
January 28, 2015:
Congratulations are in order for Kristen and the cast and crew of Clouds of Sils Maria! She is the first American actress to be nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award in 30 years, since since opera singer Julia Migenes in the 1984 film adaptation of Carmen. Amazing!! :) ♥ TeamKristenSite: France's Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for this year's Cesar Awards - the country's equivalent to the Oscars - in a morning ceremony at the famed Fouqet's restaurant on the Champs Elysees.
Best Film Love at First Fight Eastern Boys The Belier Family Hippocrates Saint Laurent Sils Maria Timbuktu
Best Director Celine Sciamma for Girlhood Thomas Cailley for Love at First Fight Robin Campillo for Eastern Boys Thomas Lilti for Hippocrates Bertrand Bonello for Saint Laurent Olivier Assayas for Sils Maria Abderrahmane Sissako for Timbuktu
Best Actress Juliette Binoche for Sils Maria Marion Cotillard for Two Days, One Night Catherine Deneuve for Dans la Cour Emilie Dequenne for Not My Type Adele Haenel for Love at First Fight Sandrine Kiberlain for Elle l’Adore Karin Viard for The Belier Family
Best Supporting Actress
Marianne Denicourt for Hippocrates
Claude Gensac for Lulu in the Nude
Izia Higelin for Samba
Charlotte Le Bon for Yves Saint Laurent
Kristen Stewart for Sils Maria
Best Original Screenplay
Thomas Cailley, Claude le Pape for Love at First Fight
Victoria Bedos, Stanislas Carre de Malberg, Eric Lartigau and Thomas Bidegain for The Belier Family
Thomas Lilti, Baya Kasmi, Julien Lilti and Pierre Chosson for Hippocrates
Oliver Assayas for Sils Maria
Abderrahmane Sissako, Kessen Tall for Timbuktu
Best Cinemaphotography
Christophe Beaucarne for The Beauty and the Beast
Josee Deshaies for Saint Laurent
Yorick le Saux for Sils Maria
Sofian el Fani for Timbuktu
Thomas Hardmeier for Yves Saint Laurent
The 40th annual awards will be held on Feb. 20 - just two days ahead of the Oscars - at Paris' Chatelet Theatre.
Danièle Heymann: "It's nice?"
Charles: "Yes it is nice. Seriously tho it was a nice surprise.
Danièle Heymann: Not really a surprise.
Charles: Well it's always somewhat of a surprise. I found out at night at Sundance. I was really happy. Kristen Stewart for example, she obviously.. I think she had no idea the nominations were coming out at that time etc. She was.. she was very happy, it was a real explosion of joy. I think it's.. the French film industry is know to have quite an interesting look on movies.
At 4:32 in the video intervew:
Danièle Heymann asks him in how many countries it was sold, and he answers "pretty much everywhere", in thirty at least. That the movie is doing "very very well", in Germany with roughly 100,000 entries. Also in Mexico, Turkey and of course in Switzerland. He says that Olivier Assayas and Juliette Binoche are worldwide people, whose movies are expected around the world and who travel a lot to introduce them. He also says that the movie will come out end of March in the US, and that it's a high-stakes (Sidenote: the US release is now April 10).
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