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Juliette Binoche
at the Elysee Biarritz movie theatre in Paris on 22 October 2009
Born (1964-03-09) 9 March 1964 (age 60)
Paris, France
Other names"La Binoche"
Occupation(s)Actress, artist, dancer, poet, designer, human rights campaigner
Years active1983–present
Partner(s)Leos Carax (1986-1991)
André Hallé (1991-1993)
Benoît Magimel (1998-2003)
Santiago Amigorena (2005-2009)
ChildrenRaphaël Hallé (1993-)
Hana Magimel (1999-)

Juliette Binoche (French pronunciation: [ʒyljɛt binɔʃ]; born 9 March 1964) is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 40 feature films, been recipient of numerous international accolades, is a published author and has appeared on stage across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence. After performing in several stage productions, she was propelled into the world of auteurs Jean-Luc Godard (Hail Mary, 1984), Jacques Doillon (Family Life, 1984) and André Téchiné, who made her a French star with the leading role in his 1985 drama Rendez-vous. Her strong and sensual performance in her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), directed by Philip Kaufman, launched her international career.

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her a role in Jurassic Park which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof Kieslowski on the set of Three Colors: Blue (1993), a performance for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a César. Three years later Binoche gained further acclaim in Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient (1997), for which she was awarded an Academy Award and a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress in addition to the Best Actress Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival. For her performance in Lasse Hallström’s romantic comedy Chocolat (2000) Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Throughout the 2000s she maintained a successful, critically acclaimed career, alternating between French and English language roles in both mainstream and art-house productions. In 2010 she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy making her the first ever actress to win the European “best actress triple crown”.

During her career Binoche has intermittently appeared on stage, most notably in a 1998 production of Luigi Pirandello’s Naked in London and in a 2000 Broadway production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2008 she began a world tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration withAkram Khan. Affectionately referred to as "La Binoche" by the French press, her other notable performances include: Mauvais Sang (1986), Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Damage (1992), Code Unknown (2000), Hidden (2005), Breaking and Entering (2006) and Flight of the Red Balloon (2007).

Early life and career

Juliette Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress.[1] Her mother is of Polish descent, and her maternal Polish Catholic grandparents were imprisoned at Auschwitz because they were viewed as intellectuals by Nazi authorities.[2][3] She also has French, Flemish, Brazilian and Moroccan ancestry.[4][5] Her parents divorced when she was four and Binoche and her sister Marion were sent to a provincial boarding school.[6] During their teens, the Binoche sisters spent their school holidays with their maternal grandmother, not seeing either parent for months at a time. Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had a profound effect on her.[7]

Binoche was not particularly academic[8] and began acting at school in amateur stage productions. At 17, she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play, Exit the King. She studied acting at the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris (CNSAD), but quit after a short time as she disliked the curriculum.[9]. In the early 1980s, she found an agent through a friend and joined a theatre troupe with which she toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under the pseudonym "Juliette Adrienne".[10] Around this time she began acting lessons with famed coach Vera Gregh.[11]

Her first screen experience was as an extra in the two part 1983 television series Dorothée, danseuse de corde by Jacques Fensten, which was followed by a similarly small role in the provincial television film Fort bloque by Pierrick Guinnard. Following this Binoche secured her first feature film appearance with a minor role in Pascal Kané's Liberty Belle. Her role required just two days on set, but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film.[8]

1984–1991

Juliette Binoche in 1985.

Binoche's early films saw her firmly established as a French star of some renown.[6] The recurring themes of these films is of contemporary young women exploring their sexuality, often from within an artistic milieu.[12]

In 1983, Binoche auditioned for the female lead in Jean-Luc Godard's Je vous salue, Marie. Godard made an approach having seen a photo of Binoche taken by her then boyfriend Fabio. [13]. She has said that her audition consisted of being required to recite poetry naked while combing her hair.[6] So impressed was he that although he gave the lead role to Myriem Roussel, he altered his screenplay creating a part especially for Binoche. She has said that she spent six months on the set of the film in Geneva, although her role in the final cut is contained to a few scenes.[13]

A supporting role in Annick Lanoë's Les Nanas followed next. This was to be Binoche's most significant role to date, playing opposite established stars Marie-France Pisier and Macha Meril in a mainstream comedy. However, Binoche has stated that the experience was not particularly memorable or influential.[14].

Next Binoche had more significant exposure in Jacques Doillon's critically acclaimed La Vie de Famille which cast her as the volatile teenage step-daughter of Sami Frey's main character. This film was to set the theme and tone of her early career. Doillon has stated that in the original screenplay her character was supposed to be 14 years old, however he was so impressed with Binoche's audition that he changed the character's age to 17 to allow her take the role.[15]

In April 1985, Binoche appeared in a significant supporting role in Bob Decout's Adieu Blaireau, a thriller starring Philippe Leotard and Annie Girardot. Later in 1985, Binoche emerged fully with the lead role in André Téchiné's Rendez-vous. Binoche was cast at the last minute when Sandrine Bonnaire had to abandon the film due to a scheduling conflict.[16]

Rendez-vous premiered at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival, winning Best Director. It is the story of a provincial actress, Nina (Binoche), who arrives in Paris and embarks on a series of disfunctional liaisons with several men, including the moody suicidal Quentin (Lambert Wilson)). However it is her collaboration with theatre director Scrutzler, played by Jean-Louis Trintignant, that defines Nina. In 1986, Binoche was nominated for her first César Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for performance in the film.

Her next role was in Mon beau-frère a tué ma soeur by Jacques Rouffio opposite the popular French stars Michel Serrault and Michel Piccoli. This film was a critical and commercial failure. However, Binoche has stated that it is very significant to her career as it taught her to judge roles based on the quality of the screenplay and connection with a director, not on the reputation of other cast members. [17]

Later in 1986, she starred opposite Michel Piccoli in Leos Carax's Mauvais Sang. This film, was a critical and commercial success, leading to Binoche's second César Award nomination. The film is an avant-garde thriller in which Binoche plays Anna the vastly younger lover of Marc, played by veteran Michel Piccoli. She has stated that she "discovered the camera", while shooting this film. [18]

In August 1986, Binoche began shooting Philip Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness of Being based on the Milan Kundera novel. She portrayed the young and innocent Tereza. This was Binoche's first English language role and was a worldwide success with critics and audiences alike following its 1988 premiere. Set against the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968, the film tells the story of the relationships a Czech surgeon Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis) has with his wife Tereza and his lover Sabina (Lena Olin). After this success, Binoche decided to return to France rather than pursue an international career.

In 1988, she filmed the lead in Pierre Pradinas's Un tour de manège, a little-seen French film. Binoche has stated that her attraction to this film was that it gave her the opportunity to work with close friends and family.[19] Pradinas is the husband of her sister Marion Stalens who was set photographer on the film and appeared in a cameo role.

Later that year she began work on Léos Carax's Les Amants du Pont-Neuf. The film was beset by problems and took three years to complete. When it was released in 1991, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf was a critical success. Binoche won a European Film Award for best actress as well as securing her third César Award nomination. In the film Binoche portrays an artist who lives rough on the streets of Paris, where she meets another young vagrant (Denis Lavant) on Paris's oldest bridge. This iconic part of the city becomes the backdrop for a wildly passionate affair and some of the most visually arresting images of the city ever created.

Binoche was now at a cross-roads in her career. She was recognized as one of the most significant French actresses of her generation. However, the long production of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf had forced her to turn down several significant roles in international productions including La Double Vie de Veronique by Krzysztof Kieslowski, Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and Beyond the Aegean an aborted project with Elia Kazan.[20] These roles may have allowed Binoche to consolidate her international position in a way Carax's film did not. Now Binoche chose to pursue an international career.

1992–2000

Juliette Binoche at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

The 1990s saw Juliette Binoche inaugurated as a European leading lady in a series of international films that were critical and commercial successes winning Binoche numerous awards for her performances. This period saw her persona develop from that of a young gamine to a more melancholic, tragic presence. Critics noted that many of her roles were notable for her almost passive intensity in the face of tragedy and despair. In fact Binoche has nicknamed her characters from this period as her "sorrowful sisters".[21]

Following the long shoot of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, Binoche relocated to London for the 1992 productions of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Damage, both of which considerably enhanced her international reputation. However, from a professional and personal point of view, both films were significant challenges for Binoche.

Her casting opposite Ralph Fiennes's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, in favour of both Helena Bonham Carter and Kate Beckinsale, immediately drew derision from the British press, unimpressed that a uniquely English role had gone to a French Actress. The film had its world premiere at the 1992 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Reviews were poor, with Binoche being dubbed "Cathy Clouseau" and being derided for her "franglais".[22] Both Binoche and director Peter Kosminsky distanced themselves from the film, with Binoche refusing to do any promotion for the film or to redub it into French.[15]

Damage, based on the novel by Josephine Hart and directed by veteran French director Louis Malle seemed to be the perfect international vehicle for Binoche, however the production was wrought with difficulties and tensions. Damage, a UK/French co-production, is the story of a UK Conservative Minister played by Jeremy Irons who embarks on a torrid affair with his son's fiancé. The production was dogged by rumours of serious conflict. In an onset interview Louise Malle stated that it was the "most difficult" film he had ever made, while Binoche commented that "That first day was one big argument". [23]

Damage opened in the UK late in 1992 and debuted early in 1993 on US screens. Reviews were somewhat mixed, but generally positive. For her performance Juliette Binoche received her fourth César nomination.

In 1993, she appeared in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors: Blue to much critical acclaim. Blue, the first film in a trilogy inspired by the ideals of the French republic and the colors of its flag, is the story of a young woman who loses her composer husband and daughter in a car accident. Though devastated she learns to cope by rejecting her previous life in favour of conscious "nothing", rejecting all people, belongings and emotions.

The film premiered at the 1993 Venice Film Festival, landing Binoche the Best Actress Prize in Venice, a César Award for Best Actress, and a Golden Globe nomination. Binoche has said her inspirations for her role were her friend and coach Vernice Klier who suffered a similar tragedy and the book L'Ange Noir by Annie Duperey.[24] Binoche made cameo appearances in the other two films in Kieslowski's trilogy, Three Colors: White and Three Colors: Red.

After this success, Binoche took a short sabbatical during which she gave birth to her son, Raphael.

In 1995, Binoche returned to the screen in a big-budget adaptation of Jean Giono's The Horseman on the Roof directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. The film was significant in France as it was the first French production to use digital special effects and was at the time the most expensive film in French history.[25] The film was a box-office success around the world and Binoche was again nominated for a César Award for Best Actress. This role, as a romantic heroine, was to color the direction of many of her subsequent roles in the late 1990s.

In 1996, Binoche appeared in A Couch in New York by Chantal Akerman. Co-starring William Hurt, this screw-ball comedy tells the story of a New York psychiatrist who swaps homes with a Parisian dancer. The film was a commercial failure. Three Colors Blue, The Horseman on the Roof and A Couch in New York all gave Binoche the opportunity to work with prestigious directors she had turned down during the prolonged shoot of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf.[20] Her next role would significantly reinforce her position as a bona-fide international movie star.

The English Patient, based on the acclaimed novel by Michael Ondaatje and directed by Anthony Minghella, was a worldwide hit. Produced by Saul Zaentz, producer of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the film reunited Juliette Binoche with Ralph Fiennes, Heathcliff to her Cathy four years previously. Binoche has said that the shoot on location in Tuscany and at the famed Cinecitta in Rome was among the happiest professional experiences of her life.

The English Patient, the story of a badly burned, mysterious man found in the wreckage of a plane during World War II, won nine Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche. With this film, she became the second French cinema actress to win an Oscar. A visibly shocked Binoche pointed out that she thought fellow nominee Lauren Bacall was going to win before saying "this is a dream!...it must be a French dream I think!".[26]

After this international hit, Binoche returned to France and began work opposite Daniel Auteuil on Claude Berri's Lucie Aubrac, which was based on a true story. However, Binoche was released from this film six weeks into the shoot, over differences with Berri regarding the authenticity of his script. Binoche has described this event as being like "an earthquake" to her.[27]

Next she worked again with André Téchiné on Alice et Martin (1998), the story of a relationship between a damaged Parisian musician and her younger lover who hides a dark family secret. The film failed to find an audience in France, although it was critically acclaimed in the UK.[28]

This was followed in 1999 by Children of the Century in which she played 19th-century French writer George Sand in a film that depicted Sand's affair with the poet and dandy Alfred de Musset played by Benoit Magimel. This lavish costume drama was filmed on location in Paris and Venice and featured couture costumes by the renowned fashion designer Christian Lacroix.

Binoche at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

2000 saw Binoche in four successful, but different, roles. First was La Veuve de Saint-Pierre by Patrice Leconte for which she was nominated for a César Award for best actress. This period drama saw Binoche appear opposite Daniel Auteuil in the role of a woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the guillotine.

Next she appeared in Michael Haneke's Code Unknown, a film which was made following Binoche's approach to the Austrian director. The film appeared in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival. This critically acclaimed role was a welcome change for Binoche from playing the romantic heroine in a series of costume dramas.[29]

Binoche made her Broadway debut in Harold Pinter's Betrayal for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. Back on screen, Binoche was the heroine of the Lasse Hallstrom film Chocolat for which she won a European Film Award for Best Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA. Based on the novel by Joanne Harris, Chocolat is the story of a mysterious stranger who opens a ‘chocolaterie’ in a conservative French village in 1959. The film was a world wide hit.

Between 1995 and 2000, Binoche was the advertising face of the Lancôme scent Poème, her image adorning print campaigns and a TV advertising campaign. There were three commercials featuring Binoche for the perfume, including an advert directed by Anthony Minghella and scored by Gabriel Yared.

By the end of this period and following roles in a number of prestige productions, critics were wondering if Binoche was typecast as the tragic, despairing muse. In a feature article entitled "The Erotic Face" in the June 2000 edition of British film magazine Sight and Sound, Ginette Vincendeau pondered Binoche's persona. Vincendeau suggested that the fixation of numerous directors upon her face had led to an erasure of her body, and to her being perceived only as a romantic icon rather than a versatile actress.[30]

2001–2006

Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno at Cannes, 2002

Following the success of Chocolat, the early 2000s saw Binoche recognized internationally as an A-list movie star. However, her persona seemed to be somewhat fixed following a series of period roles where Binoche played the always stoic heroine.[12]

Ever keen to try something new, Juliette Binoche returned to France for an unlikely role; Jet Lag (2002) opposite Jean Reno saw Binoche play a ditzy beautician. The film, directed by Daniele Thompson was a box-office hit in France and saw Binoche once again nominated for a César Award for best actress. The film tells the story of a couple who meet in an airport during a strike. Initially the pair despises each other, but, over the course of a night, they find common ground and maybe even love.

In 2003, Binoche featured in an Italian TV commercial for the chocolates Ferrero Rocher. This ad played upon her Chocolat persona and featured Binoche handing Rochers to people on the streets of Paris.

Next Binoche went to South Africa to film John Boorman's In My Country (2004) opposite Samuel L. Jackson. Based on the book ‘’Country of My Skull’’ by Antjie Krog the film examines The Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings following the abolition of Apartheid. Although the film premiered at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, it received much criticism for the inclusion of a fictional love affair and the depiction of black South Africans.[31] Despite the negative reception, Binoche was extremely entusiastic about the film and her relationship with the director. [32][33]

She then re-teamed with Michael Haneke for Caché. The film was an immediate success, winning best director at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Binoche was nominated for a European Film Award for Best Actress for her role. The film tells the story of a bourgeois Parisian couple played by Binoche and Daniel Auteuil who begin to receive anonymous videotapes featuring footage seemingly filmed outside their home. The film went on to feature on numerous lists of the top 10 films of the 2000s, including the number one position in a list published by The Times.[34]

Binoche's next film was Bee Season with Richard Gere. Based on the celebrated novel by Myla Goldberg the film was not a success with audiences or critics. The film depicts the emotional disintegration of a family just as their daughter begins to win spelling bees. For many critics the film, although intelligent, was “distant and diffuse”.[35]

Mary (2005) saw Binoche collaborate with Abel Ferrara for an investigation of modern faith and Mary Magdalene's position in the Catholic Church. The film was an immediate success, winning the Grand Prix at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Although the film won favourable reviews in France, particularly from the influential cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles,[36] it failed to secure a distributor in key markets such as the US and the UK.

2006 saw Binoche take part in the portmanteau work Paris, je t'aime appearing in a section directed by Nobuhiro Suwa. Place des Victoires is the story of a grief stricken mother who manages to have a final brief moment with her dead son.

Binoche appeared at the 2006 Venice Film Festival to launch A Few Days in September, by Santiago Amigorena. The film was not successful and was the recipient of very harsh criticism from the press for its perceived trivialization of the events of 11 September 2001.[37]

Next she traveled to the Toronto Film Festival for the premiere of Breaking and Entering, her second film with Anthony Minghella in the director's chair, where she played opposite Jude Law as a Bosnian refugee in London. Although Binoche was praised for her performance the film did not ring true for critics and failed to find an audience.[38]

Although Binoche began the decade on a high with an Academy Award nomination for Chocolat, she struggled in the first part of the 2000s to find roles that did not confine her to the persona developed in the 1990s. Despite the huge success of Caché, other high profile films such as In My Country, Bee Season and Breaking and Entering failed critically and commercially. At this point Binoche seemed to be at a crossroads in her career.[39]

2007–present

Binoche at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

The 2007 Cannes Film Festival saw the premiere of Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge by the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. The film was well received by international critics and went on to debut around the world in early 2008. In a homage to Albert Lamorisse's 1957 short Le Ballon Rouge, Hou's film tells the story of a single mother's struggles to juggle her responsibilities as a mother with her commitment to her career as a voice artist. The film was number 1 on the influential critic J. Hoberman's Top 10 List for 2008 published in The Village Voice.[40]

Peter Hedges co-wrote and directed her in Dan in Real Life, a romantic comedy opposite Steve Carell. It was released in October 2007, becoming a popular commercial success in the US, before debuting around the world in 2008. To date the film has grossed over $65 million at the worldwide box-office.[41] The film is the story of a widowed man (Carell) who meets and instantly falls for a woman (Binoche) only to discover she is the new girlfriend of his brother. [42]

Back in France Binoche was seen to popular and critical success in Paris by Cédric Klapisch. Paris is Klapisch's personal ode to the French capital and features an impressive ensemble of French talent including; Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini and Melanie Laurent. Paris was one of the most successful French films internationally in recent years having grossed $22,850,194 at the world box office.[43]

L'Heure D'été by Olivier Assayas is the critically acclaimed story of three siblings who struggle with the responsibility of disposing of their late mother's valuable art collection following her death. The film premiered in France in March 2008 and debuted at the 2008 New York Film Festival, before going on general release in the US on 19 May 2009. Widely acclaimed the film appeared on numerous Top 10 lists including first place on David Edelstein's Top 10 of 2009 list in New York Magazine, and J.R. Jones's list in the Chicago Reader.[44]

Disengagement by Amos Gitai followed in which Binoche played a French woman of Dutch/Palestinian origin who finds herself on the Gaza Strip searching for a daughter she abandoned 20 years before.[45] The film premiered at the 2007 Venice Film Festival where it appeared in competition. The film won the prestigious Premio Roberto Rossellini.[46]

In the Autumn of 2008 Binoche appeared in a theatrical dance production titled in-i with Akram Khan, which featured stage design by Anish Kapoor and music by Philip Sheppard premiering at the National Theatre in London before moving to New York, L.A., Sydney and Paris.[47] The production was part of a 'Binoche Season' called 'Ju'Bi'lations' which also featured a retrospective of her film work and an exhibition of her paintings, which were published in a bilingual book Portraits in Eyes.[48]

At the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, Binoche revealed that she was developing projects with Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Jia Zhangke and Jiang Wen.[49]

In June 2009 Binoche began work on Certified Copy for Abbas Kiarostami. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.[50] Binoche won the Best Actress Award at the festival for her performance. The film went on general release in France on 19 May 2010 to very positive reviews.[51] Her win at the 2010 Cannes Film festival makes Binoche the first actress in history to win the European 'triple crown': Best Actress at Venice for Three Colors: Blue, Best Actress at Berlin for The English Patient and Best Actress at Cannes for Certified Copy.

Binoche appeared in a small supporting role in The Son of No One for American director Dito Montiel. The film also stars Channing Tatum, Al Pacino and Ray Liotta. The Son of No One premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival to fairly negative reaction.[52]

In June 2010, Binoche started work on Elles for Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska. Elles, produced under the working title Sponsoring[53][54], is an examination of teenage prostitution with Juliette Binoche playing a journalist. The film is due for release in France on 9 November 2011, with suggestions that it may premiere at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

On 12 January 2011, Variety announced that Juliette Binoche has signed on to star in La Vie d'une Autre based on the novel by Frederique Deghelt.[55] The film will be the directorial debut of highly regarded French Actress Sylvie Testud and will co-star actor/director Mathieu Kassovitz. In the film, a young woman falls in love, then wakes up a decade later, the mother of a young boy and on the verge of a divorce. The film is due to begin shooting in Paris in March 2011.

On 17 February 2011, Screendaily.com announced that Juliette Binoche has been cast in David Cronenberg's film Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson and Paul Giamati.[56] The film, produced by Paulo Branco, is due to begin principal photography on 24 May 2011.

Beyond Cosmopolis, Juliette Binoche has been linked to several projects in various stages of development. In an interview posted to Indie Movies Online, François Ozon revealed he is planning to shoot a film starring Binoche and Fabrice Luchini in July 2011.[57]. She is attached to À la Recherche d'un Chemin de Retour to be directed by Abderrahmane Sissako. Binoche has also revealed she has projects with Olivier Assayas, Abbas Kiarostami, Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Bruno Dumont.

Personal life

Binoche has two children: Raphaël (born on 2 September 1993), whose father is André Halle, a professional scuba diver, and Hana (born on 16 December 1999), whose father is actor Benoît Magimel, with whom Binoche starred in the 1999 film Children of the Century.

She previously had romantic relationships with Leos Carax, Olivier Martinez, a brief relationship with Daniel Day-Lewis and a relationship with Argentine writer/director Santiago Amigorena between 2005 and 2008.[58]

Painting

In the 1991 film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, in which Binoche portrays an artist, the paintings used in the film were Binoche's own work. She also designed the poster for the film.

In 1993, Binoche exhibited work done in collaboration with the French designer and artist Christian Fenouillat. They plan to collaborate again in the future and are currently working on pieces themed by Cinema.[59]

In November 2008, Juliette Binoche published a bilingual large format book entitled "Juliette Binoche, Portraits In-Eyes". The book contains large full page portraits of each director she has worked with to date as well as self portraits of her as each character. Binoche also wrote a few lines dedicated to each director. The book was published by French house "Editions Place des Victoires".[60]

Charities

Binoche has been involved with a number of charities, including being a patron of the Cambodian charity Aspecta since 1992. She is also godmother to five Cambodian orphans.

In 2004, Binoche organised an auction on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières, in which disposable cameras were given to numerous celebrities and then auctioned off; the winner of each camera would then develop the pictures to reveal that celebrity's chosen subject.

Political views

In 2007 Binoche told an interviewer she believed the CIA and other government agencies had had foreknowledge of the 11 September attacks, as depicted in her film A Few Days in September.[61][62]

She supported José Bové in the 2007 French presidential elections which were won by Nicolas Sarkozy.[63] She has disclosed on a number of occasions that she does not approve of the Sarkozy administration, stating that the president is creating a monarchic republic.[64][65]

At the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Binoche spoke out against the detention of Iranian director Jafar Panahi, incarcerated in Teheran's Evin Prison since 1 March 2010 without charge or conviction. At the press conference following the press screening of Copie Conforme, Binoche was informed that Panahi had begun a hunger strike.[66]

The following day Binoche attended a press conference called especially to demand the release of Panahi. Also in attendance were Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Gilles Jacob. Binoche read a letter which pointed out that Panahi's detention was "unwarranted and intolerable".

When Binoche was awarded the Best Actress award at the festival, brandishing his name on a placard, she used her speech as an opportunity to raise Panahi's plight once again.[67] On 25 May it was announced that Panahi had been released on bail. It was generally agreed that the publicity Binoche and Kiarostami elicited for his case was a strong factor in his release.[66]

On 20 December 2010 Panahi, after being prosecuted for “assembly and colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security and propaganda against the Islamic Republic,” was handed a six-year jail sentence and a 20-year ban on making or directing any movies, writing screenplays, giving any form of interview with Iranian or foreign media as well as leaving the country.

Depardieu / Binoche controversy

In a provocative interview with Stefan Grisseman, published in the September 2010 issue of the Austrian magazine Profil, leading French actor Gérard Depardieu made scathing comments in relation to Juliette Binoche.[68] According to a translation that appeared in The Guardian, Depardieu said:

“I would really like to know why she has been so esteemed for so many years. She [Binoche] has nothing. Absolutely nothing! She is nothing, compared with her, Isabelle Adjani is great, even if she's totally nuts. Or Fanny Ardant – she is magnificent, extremely impressive. But Binoche? What has she ever had going for her?”[69]

Depardieu then went on to criticize Leos Carax and the 1991 film Les Amants du Pont-Neuf:

"Carax needed six years to shoot his film with Binoche, which turned out not even to be a film but just a piece of shit."[69]

While promoting her film Copie Conforme in the UK, Binoche responded to film magazine Empire Magazine saying:

“I don't know him [Depardieu] and I don't know what I did to him. I understand you don't have to like everyone and you can dislike someone's work. But I don't understand the violence [of his statements]. He is allowed to not like me as an actress, but I do not understand why he is behaving like this. It is his problem.”[70]

Following these comments Jean-Michel Frodon, previously editor of Cahiers du Cinema and French actress Catherine Deneuve commented on the controversy. In response to a query in relation to the matter from Ali Naderzad, Frodon commented:

“Gérard Depardieu is a giant actor who often talks out his mind. What he said is pure bullshit, about Juliette Binoche, about Leos Carax... The best explanation I can think of regarding the insults to Juliette Binoche, whom I consider the best actress of her generation, and also a very generous and daring person, is heavy drinking. It's only a guess, but other explanations would be worse.”[71]

In an interview with the French magazine Têtu, Catherine Deneuve commented:

“In my opinion, he [Depardieu] did not realize the scope of what he said. He must feel that Juliette is too praised. [...] Well, I understand that actors do not have to like others and vice versa. The same for Juliette. But it was very shocking. Gerard can certainly act in bad faith.”[72]

Filmography and awards

Year Title Role Notes
1983 Dorothée, danseuse de corde minor role
  • Television film
  • Also known as Dorothy the Rope Dancer
1983 Liberty belle La fille du rallye
1985 Le Meilleur de la vie Une amie de Véronique au bar Also known as A Better Life
1985 Rendez-vous Nina/Anne Larrieux Nominated — César Award for Best Actress
1985 Adieu Blaireau Brigitte B., dite B.B. Also known as Farewell Blaireau
1985 Family Life Natacha
1985 Les Nanas Antoinette Also known as The Girls
1985 Hail Mary Juliette
1985 Fort bloqué Nicole Television film
1986 Mauvais Sang Anna
1986 My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister Esther Bouloire
1988 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tereza
1989 Un tour de manège Elsa Also known as Once Around the Park
1991 Les Amants du Pont-Neuf Michèle Stalens
1991 Women & Men 2 Mara Television film; segment "Henry Miller's Mara"
1992 Damage Anna Barton Nominated — César Award for Best Actress
1992 Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights Cathy Linton / Catherine Earnshaw
1993 Three Colors: Blue Julie Vignon (de Courcy)
1994 Three Colors: White Julie Vignon (de Courcy)
1994 Three Colors: Red Julie Vignon (de Courcy)
1995 The Horseman on the Roof Pauline de Théus Nominated — César Award for Best Actress
1996 The English Patient Hana
1996 A Couch in New York Beatrice Saulnier
1998 Alice et Martin Alice Also known as Alice and Martin
1999 Children of the Century George Sand/Baroness Aurore Dudevant
2000 Chocolat Vianne Rocher
2000 Code Unknown Anne Laurent
2000 The Widow of Saint-Pierre Pauline (Madame La) Nominated — César Award for Best Actress
2002 Jet Lag Rose Nominated — César Award for Best Actress
2004 In My Country Anna Malan Also known as Country of My Skull
2005 Mary Marie Palesi / Mary Magdalene
2005 Bee Season Miriam
2005 Hidden Anne Laurent Nominated — European Film Award for Best Actress
2006 Breaking and Entering Amira
2006 A Few Days in September Irène Montano
2006 Paris, je t'aime Suzanne
  • segment Place des Victoires
2007 Dan in Real Life Marie
2007 Disengagement Ana
2007 The Flight of the Red Balloon Suzanne
2008 Paris Elise
2008 Summer Hours Adrienne
2008 Shirin Woman in audience
2010 Certified Copy Elle Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress
2011 The Son of No One Lauren
2011 Elles Anne post-production
2012 La Vie d'Une Autre Marie Filming

Other awards

Won

Nominations

References

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  7. ^ Stated in 2008 BBC Documentary When Akram met Juliette
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  15. ^ a b Quoted in feature article Première Magazine No 222, 09/1995
  16. ^ Stated in feature article Première Magazine No 222, 09/1995
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