This article is from the source 'guardian' and was first published or seen on . It last changed over 40 days ago and won't be checked again for changes.
You can find the current article at its original source at http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/23/chlo-grace-moretz-cannes-sils-maria-juliette-binoche
The article has changed 3 times. There is an RSS feed of changes available.
| Version 0 | Version 1 |
|---|---|
| Chloë Grace Moretz in Cannes: 'French cinema is much more innovative than American' | Chloë Grace Moretz in Cannes: 'French cinema is much more innovative than American' |
| (35 minutes later) | |
| The actor Chloë Grace Moretz, best known for her role as Hit Girl in the Kick-Ass films, has praised French cinema for innovation superior to that found in the US. Speaking at the Cannes film festival, where she co-stars in a new film from French director Olivier Assayes, Moretz, 17, said that movies made in France were "so much more innovative … new and alive and raw, which we can't quite capture in America yet". | The actor Chloë Grace Moretz, best known for her role as Hit Girl in the Kick-Ass films, has praised French cinema for innovation superior to that found in the US. Speaking at the Cannes film festival, where she co-stars in a new film from French director Olivier Assayes, Moretz, 17, said that movies made in France were "so much more innovative … new and alive and raw, which we can't quite capture in America yet". |
| Moretz co-stars in Clouds of Sils Maria as a hell-raising teen idol, famed for her complicated love-life, loose tongue and lead role in an X-Men-style superhero movie. Questioned about what it was like to mock a genre from which she has profited, Moretz said it was "an interesting juxtaposition act, to make fun of the biggest medium right now – the post-apocalyptic we-all-live-in-space movie". | Moretz co-stars in Clouds of Sils Maria as a hell-raising teen idol, famed for her complicated love-life, loose tongue and lead role in an X-Men-style superhero movie. Questioned about what it was like to mock a genre from which she has profited, Moretz said it was "an interesting juxtaposition act, to make fun of the biggest medium right now – the post-apocalyptic we-all-live-in-space movie". |
| Clouds of Sils Maria features Cannes perennial Juliette Binoche as a bilingual star of stage and screen. She agrees to take the older part in a play about a love affair between two women – a boss of about 40 and her personal assistant, who is 20 years her junior – which kickstarted her career two decades before, when she took the younger role. Her character discusses the text with her own PA (Twilight's Kristen Stewart), and eventually meets the woman whom she is to play opposite – played by Moretz. | |
| Clouds of Sils Maria is the second film in competition at Cannes this year to focus on an ageing female actor upset by unhappy comparisons with an up-and-comer, following David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, which screened last week to generally warmer reviews. | Clouds of Sils Maria is the second film in competition at Cannes this year to focus on an ageing female actor upset by unhappy comparisons with an up-and-comer, following David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars, which screened last week to generally warmer reviews. |
| Binoche, 50, who won the best actress award at the festival in 2010 for Certified Copy, said that unlike her character in the film, she preferred to live in the present rather than reflect on the past. "I like to call it 'verticality'. To feel we're anchored on ground and dreaming at same time." | Binoche, 50, who won the best actress award at the festival in 2010 for Certified Copy, said that unlike her character in the film, she preferred to live in the present rather than reflect on the past. "I like to call it 'verticality'. To feel we're anchored on ground and dreaming at same time." |
| However, she conceded that over the course of her own career – which started in similar form to her character, being cast by an older director with whom she fell in love – she had become "more skilled, more honed". | However, she conceded that over the course of her own career – which started in similar form to her character, being cast by an older director with whom she fell in love – she had become "more skilled, more honed". |
| Assayes said that his leading lady had inspired his trilingual film, which largely unfolds in a Swiss chalet belonging to the playwright. "Binoche has two careers," said Assayes. "She came from France then blossomed in communicating with the rest of the world, and became global. If we had set the film in the showbiz world of Paris, it would have felt extremely restrictive. Now it is potentially universal." | Assayes said that his leading lady had inspired his trilingual film, which largely unfolds in a Swiss chalet belonging to the playwright. "Binoche has two careers," said Assayes. "She came from France then blossomed in communicating with the rest of the world, and became global. If we had set the film in the showbiz world of Paris, it would have felt extremely restrictive. Now it is potentially universal." |
| The film initially expresses some disdain for the blockbuster genre in which Binoche herself is currently enjoying great success, as part of the cast of Gareth Edwards' Godzilla. Asked about her decision to join the monster movie, Binoche said: "I just want to please my son." |