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Assayas also seems ready to leave the fraught decade of his youth behind. "I want to go back to dealing with the present," he says, leaning forward to palm a folder containing his newest screenplay, Sils Maria—since announced to star Juliette Binoche and Mia Wasikowska—which he describes as a major departure. "I'm pathologically curious about things," he says, especially the kinds of things that "make you reinvent yourself, redefine yourself, question yourself." Whatever form, frame, or tense Sils Maria takes, it sounds like the spirit of disorder, of constant becoming, will continue to prevail.