This film explores the unstable boundaries between performing and being. Juliette Binoche plays Maria Enders, an internationally renowned star; Kristen Stewart is Valentine, Maria’s personal assistant. Maria is considering whether to star in a revival of the stage drama that launched her career twenty years ago, in which she played a cunning ingénue who seduces, abandons, and then drives to suicide her older boss. In the remounting, Maria is to portray the spurned middle-aged lover. The part she originally inhabited is offered to a rising phenomenon with a Lindsay Lohan-like penchant for scandal and self-destruction. Throughout the film, the ingeniously cast performers refract and reflect their own off-screen personae, creating a hall-of-mirrors experience that is never less than exhilarating.

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