In a way that is reminiscent of Luigi Pirandello’s take on character impersonation, Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, dir. Olivier Assayas) plays with the history of film, with the layering of performances, crossing theater and film, actors and characters. This chapter focuses on how the duo Binoche / Maria Enders encourages a reflection on metacinema by questioning what it means to be a character, to create one for ourselves, and to assess the very viability of such a creation. More narrowly, the chapter argues that Clouds of Sils Maria is capable of adding a significant contribution to the debate, within analytic aesthetics, on the advantages and the dangers of seeing our lives as narratives. For while watching the feature may prompt an agreement with Peter Lamarque’s criticism of the “narrative view,” which highlighted how a “story-like” narration of our lives might transform nonfictional, factual events into fictional ones, we are also reminded of how such a crafted and constructed rendition of facts may ultimately be inevitable.