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It’s a film that stretches Stewart’s formidable talents—placing her opposite Juliette Binoche, one of the foremost stars of world cinema—and one has already made waves internationally: For her role as a sly, knowing personal assistant to a diva-ish aging actress, she [won an unofficial critics’ poll](http://www.indiewire.com/article/cannes-2014-critics-poll-results-two-days-one-night-mommy-foxcatcher-and-yes-kristen-stewart-among-winners) at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and was mentioned as a potential Best Actress winner there (Julianne Moore ended up taking the prize). At year’s end, she became the [first American actress ever](http://variety.com/2015/film/awards/kristen-stewart-is-first-american-actress-to-win-frances-cesar-award-1201438211/) to win the French version of the Oscar. How did this happen to an actress still best known as Bella Swan? Between 2008 and 2012, Stewart appeared in five _Twilight_ films, rising to megafame for playing a role more catalyst than character. Bella existed to be the pivot point of a love triangle, and the _Twilight_ films demanded little of Stewart but her willingness to bite her lip pensively. (Offscreen, the demands were perhaps higher—she had to participate in a relentless publicity circuit.) The role was star-making, but Stewart seemed not to want to be the sort of star who did a lengthy press junket a year. She came in for frequent and harsh criticism online, as her discomfort with endless press obligations, and with fans who adored her boyfriend/co-star Robert Pattinson, sometimes transmitted as ingratitude for the opportunities _Twilight_ that afforded her. She’s answered those criticisms, now, elegantly, by bringing her stardom to offbeat productions. What better way to show that she was grateful for _Twilight_ than to use the stardom it gave her to help bring attention to the masterful _Clouds_? The film, directed by French auteur Olivier Assayas, places its two lead actresses in a claustrophobically close relationship, wringing tension from the differences in outlook between Binoche’s neurotic perfectionism and Stewart’s more pragmatic sense of what makes contemporary Hollywood tick. Stewart, who is in her real life admirably frank about the obligations of working in movies, brings to the screen a puncturing awareness of Binoche’s delusions. The character is unmistakably a Stewart creation: Clear-eyed, unconcerned with what others think of her. But the viewer could be forgiven for surprise that Stewart, still young and burdened with a certain reputation, manages to go toe-to-toe with one of the world’s great actresses. But that surprise shouldn’t last much longer. Stewart’s recent creative success is hardly limited to _Clouds_: In the recent Oscar-winner _Still Alice_, playing a daughter whose toughness concealed a flawed relationship with her parents and deep fears for the future, Stewart did what the greatest stars do. She used aspects of her public image (in her case, a quintessentially millennial surliness) to create a character who felt as though she might walk off the screen at any moment. The movie was flawed, but Stewart transcended thin material, something she hadn’t been able to do in the past. That’s because in _Twilight_ and in the would-be franchise film _Snow White and the Huntsman_, she seemed so focused on just getting through the film alive that she was uncomfortable playing against her own persona. Stewart’s history in the public eye is now an asset she deploys artfully, as when her _Clouds_ character deflates her employer’s fantasies about young Hollywood. It’s not labored or overwrought, somehow—it’s just proof of Stewart’s underheralded powers. Stewart can’t seem to change the conversation around her: Recent coverage of the actress in the run-up to her film’s release have included what [she thinks about Pattinson’s engagement](http://www.people.com/article/kristen-stewart-feels-robert-pattinson-engagement-fka-twigs) (she’s doing okay!) and what she thinks of the [celebrity-gossip industry](http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/kristen-stewart-reflects-huge-booming-786354) (she’s against it!). Because of the manner in which she came to prominence, Stewart will always have people who are more interested in her fame than her work, both zealous friends and detractors. (And she may find that it would be better not to acknowledge the tabloid press at all, rather than validating it with constant mentions in interviews.) But by choosing roles in which she’s able to spin variations on an edgy young woman with deep, almost scarily intense passions, Stewart is making the absolute most of her fame. More young stars should be as savvy, and as willing to tempt the haters, as is Stewart in her pursuit of new shades and dimensions of Bella Swan-ish angst. She’s doing the same thing as Jennifer Lawrence, who finds roles in which she’s able to be outspoken and relatable. In temperament, Lawrence is Stewart’s opposite. Yet their talents are comparable, and Stewart is making her mark by creating work out of the uncomfortable, strange world of modern fame. 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