• Assayas is a very tough auteur for me in many ways- just ultra-ambiguous at all times. He’s intelligent but not overly stylish and certainly you have to work at his films
  • Binoche and Stewart are fantastic here
  • Riffs on all above eve
  • The editing leans heavily on dissolves which gives the film a dream-like quality
  • The casting of both Stewart and Binoche is very meta. Binoche plays a respected international actress who does serious works with serious directors and the Chloë Grace Moretz character plays a Hollywood, blockbuster, paparazzi and teen star (like Stewart was)
  • All the characters are portrayed honestly but clearly Assayas sides with Binoche (the serious auteur type) with his hilarious portrayal of a super hero movie here
  • Smart examination of aging and celebrity—as a metanarrative on how to read art
  • Not in the top 25 of 2014 but it’s in the archives
  • Recommend