History Trivia / CloudsOfSilsMaria

** Also, the film's writer/director Creator/OlivierAssayas co-wrote André Téchiné's 1985 movie ''Rendez-vous'', in which Juliette Binoche had one of her first starring roles as Nina, a 21-year-old actress who gets into an intense love triangle with two guys. That film, like this one, ends with Binoche playing an actress, waiting
for the play she's in to begin.

** Also, the film's writer/director Creator/OlivierAssayas co-wrote André Téchiné's 1985 movie ''Rendez-vous'', in which Juliette Binoche had one of her first starring roles as Nina, a 21-year-old actress who gets into an intense love triangle with two guys. That film, like this one, ends with Binoche playing an actress, waiting for the play she's in to begin.

* CareerResurrection: The film saved Creator/KristenStewart's career after the end of the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' saga, which was enormously successful but which she had always taken a critical shellacking for. Demonstrating here that [[SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct she could actually act]], she spent the rest of the 2010s rebuilding her critical respectability.

** Also, the film's writer/director Olivier Assayas co-wrote André Téchiné's 1985 movie ''Rendez-vous'', in which Juliette Binoche had one of her first starring roles as Nina, a 21-year-old actress who gets into an intense love triangle with two guys. That film, like this one, ends with Binoche playing an actress, waiting for the play she's in to begin.

* RealitySubtext: The scenes where Valentine breaks down Jo-Ann's acting sounds suspiciously like Creator/KristenStewart defending herself (especially over her acting in mainstream-blockbusters like ''Film/{{Twilight}}'').

* ActorAllusion: When telling Maria about a blockbuster film she's being offered, Valentine says, "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} There are werewolves involved for whatever reason]]."
* RealitySubtext: The scenes where Valentine breaks down Jo-Ann's acting sounds suspiciously like Kristen Stewart defending herself (especially over her acting in mainstream-blockbusters like ''Twilight'').

* ActorAllusion: When telling Maria about a blockbuster film she's being offered, Valentine says, "[[Franchise/{{Twilight}} There are werewolves involved for whatever reason]]."

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: For Kristen Stewart. Despite having a number of lauded smaller roles, the looming spectre of ''Twilight'' and [[OvershadowedByControversy bad publicity]] surrounding ''Snow White and the Huntsman'' had seen her thrown under the bus by critics and audiences alike. It turns out that when given some meat to work with in a role, she can actually pull it off. ''Clouds'', alongside ''Camp X-Ray'' and ''Still Alice'', were part of a huge boost to her career across 2014 and 2015, and earned her first major acting awards, including, among others, a Cesar, New York Film Critics Circle, and National Society Of Film Critics awards for Best Supporting Actress.
* RealitySubtext: The scenes where Valentine breaks down Jo-Ann's acting sounds suspiciously like Kristen Stewart defending herself (especially over her acting in mainstream-blockbusters like ''Twilight'').

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: For Kristen Stewart. Despite having a number of lauded smaller roles, the looming spectre of ''Twilight'' and [[OvershadowedByControversy bad publicity]] surrounding ''Snow White and the Huntsman'' had seen her thrown under the bus by critics and audiences alike. It turns out that when given some meat to work with in a role, she can actually pull it off. ''Clouds'', alongside ''Camp X-Ray'' and ''Still Alice'', were part of a huge boost to her career across 2014 and 2015, and earned her first major acting awards, including a Cesar and the New York Film Critics Circle awards for Best Supporting Actress.

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: For Kristen Stewart. Despite having a number of lauded smaller roles, the looming spectre of ''Twilight'' and [[OvershadowedByControversy bad publicity]] surrounding ''Snow White and the Huntsman'' had seen her thrown under the bus by critics and audiences alike. It turns out that when given some meat to work with in a role, she can actually pull it off. ''Clouds'', alongside ''Camp X-Ray'' and ''Still Alice'', were part of a huge boost to her career across 2014 and 2015, and earned her first major acting award, a Cesar for Best Supporting Actress.

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: For Kristen Stewart. Despite having a number of lauded smaller roles, the looming spectre of ''Twilight'' and [[OvershadowedByControversy bad publicity]] surrounding ''Snow White and the Huntsman'' had seen her thrown under the bus by critics and audiences alike. It turns out that when given some meat to work with in a role, she can actually pull it off. ''Clouds'', alongside ''Camp X-Ray'' and ''Still Alice'' as well as laying low from the paparazzi, were part of a huge boost to her career across 2014 and 2015, and earned her first major acting award, a Cesar for Best Supporting Actress.

* [[HeReallyCanAct She Really Can Act]]: On Stewart's behalf; despite a number of lauded smaller roles, the looming spectre of Twilight and [[OvershadowedByControversy bad publicity]] surrounding Snow White and the Huntsman had seen her thrown under the bus by critics and audiences alike; turns out that when given some meat to work with in a role, she can actually pull it off; Clouds, alongside ''Camp X-Ray'' and ''Still Alice'', were part of a huge boost to her career across 2014 and 2015.