Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche (French pronunciation: [yljt bin];

born 9 March 1964) is a French actress, artist and dancer.
She has appeared in more than 40 feature lms, been
recipient of numerous international awards, and has appeared on stage and in movies across the world. Coming from an artistic background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence. After performing in several stage productions, she began acting in lms by auteur
directors Jean-Luc Godard (Hail Mary, 1985), Jacques
Doillon (Family Life, 1985) and Andr Tchin, who
made her a star in France with the leading role in his
1985 drama Rendez-vous. Her sensual performance in
her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of
Being (1988), directed by Philip Kaufman, launched her
international career.

(2007), Camille Claudel 1915 (2013) and Clouds of Sils

Maria (2015).

1 Early life
Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie
Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique
Yvette Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress.[2] Her
father, who is French, also has one eighth PortugueseBrazilian ancestry; he was raised partly in Morocco by his
French-born parents.[3][4][5] Juliettes mother was born
in Czstochowa, Poland.[6] Binoches maternal grandfather, Andre Stalens, was born in Poland, of Belgian
(Walloon) and French descent, and Binoches maternal
grandmother, Julia Helena Mynarczyk, was of Polish
origin.[7] Both of them were actors who were born in
Czstochowa; they were imprisoned at Auschwitz, because they were considered to be intellectuals by the
German Nazi occupiers.[6][8][9]

She sparked the interest of Steven Spielberg, who offered her several parts including a role in Jurassic Park
which she declined, choosing instead to join Krzysztof
Kielowski in Three Colors: Blue (1993), a performance
for which she won the Venice Film Festival Award for
Best Actress and a Csar. Three years later Binoche
gained further acclaim in Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996), 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 International Film Festival. For her performance
in Lasse Hallstrm's romantic comedy Chocolat (2000),
Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Actress.

When Binoches parents divorced in 1968, four-year-old

Binoche and her sister Marion were sent to a provincial
boarding school.[10] 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 eect on her.[11]

During the 2000s she maintained a successful 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 Certied Copy making her the rst actress to win the European Best Actress Triple Crown (for winning best actress award at the
Berlin, Cannes and Venice lm festivals).

She was not particularly academic[12] and in her teenage

years she began acting at school in amateur stage productions. At 17, she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugne Ionesco play, Exit the King. She studied acting at the Conservatoire National Suprieur d'Art
Dramatique (CNSAD), but quit after a short time as she
disliked the curriculum.[12] In the early 1980s, she found
an agent through a friend and joined a theater troupe with
Throughout her career Binoche has intermittently ap- which she toured France, Belgium and Switzerland under
[13]
peared on stage, most notably in a 1998 London produc- the pseudonym Juliette Adrienne. Around this time
[14]
tion of Luigi Pirandello's Naked and in a 2000 produc- she began lessons with acting coach Vera Gregh.
tion of Harold Pinter's Betrayal on Broadway for which Her rst professional screen experience was as an extra in
she was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2008 she be- the three part TF1 television series Dorothe, danseuse de
gan a world tour with a modern dance production in-i corde (1983) directed by Jacques Fensten, which was foldevised in collaboration with Akram Khan. Often re- lowed by a similarly small role in the provincial television
ferred to as La Binoche [1] by the press, her other notable lm Fort bloque directed by Pierrick Guinnard. Followperformances include: Mauvais Sang (1986), Les Amants ing this Binoche secured her rst feature lm appearance
du Pont-Neuf (1991), Damage (1992), The Horseman on with a minor role in Pascal Kan's Liberty Belle (1983).
the Roof (1995), Code Unknown (2000), Cach (2005), Her role required just two days on set, but was enough to
Breaking and Entering (2006), Flight of the Red Balloon inspire Binoche to pursue a career in lm.[12]
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19841991

Juliette Binoche in 1985.

Binoches early lms would see her established as a

French star of some renown.[10] In 1983, she auditioned
for the female lead in Jean-Luc Godard's controversial
Hail Mary, a modern retelling of the Virgin birth.[15] Godard requested a meeting with Binoche having seen a
photo of her taken by her boyfriend of the time.[16] She
has said that she spent six months on the set of the lm
in Geneva, although her role in the nal cut is contained
to only a few scenes.[16][17] Further supporting roles followed in a variety of French lms: Annick Lano's Les
Nanas was to give Binoche her most noteworthy role
to date, playing opposite established stars Marie-France
Pisier and Macha Meril, in a mainstream comedy.[18]
However, she has stated that the experience was not particularly memorable or inuential.[19] She gained more
signicant exposure in Jacques Doillon's critically acclaimed Family Life, which cast her as the volatile teenage
step-daughter of Sami Frey's central character. This lm
was to set the tone of her early career.[20] Doillon has
commented that in the original screenplay her character
was written to be 14 years old, he was so impressed with
Binoches audition he changed the characters age to 17
to allow her take the role.[21] In April 1985, Binoche followed this with another supporting role in Bob Decout's
Adieu Blaireau, a policier thriller starring Philippe Lotard and Annie Girardot. Adieu Blaireau failed to have
much impact with critics or audiences.[22]

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Bonnaire had to abandon the lm due to a scheduling

conict.[23] Rendez-vous premiered at the 1985 Cannes
Film Festival, winning Best Director. The lm was a sensation and Binoche became the darling of the festival.[24]
Rendez-Vous is the story of a provincial actress, Nina
(Binoche), who arrives in Paris and embarks on a series of dysfunctional 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, which comes to dene
Nina.[25] In a review of Rendez-Vous in Film Comment,
Armond White described it as Juliette Binoches career
dening performance.[26]
In 1986, Binoche was nominated for her rst Csar for
Best Actress in a Leading Role for her performance in
the lm.[27] Following Rendez-Vous, she was unsure of
what role to take next. She auditioned unsuccessfully
for Yves Boisset's Bleu comme l'enfer and Robin Daviss
Hors la loi,[25] but was eventually cast in My Brother-inlaw Killed My Sister (1986) by Jacques Rouo opposite
the popular French stars Michel Serrault and Michel Piccoli. This lm was a critical and commercial failure.[28]
Binoche has commented that Rouos lm is very significant to her career as it taught her to judge roles based on
the quality of the screenplay and her connection with a
director, not on the reputation of other cast members.[29]
Later in 1986, she again starred opposite Michel Piccoli
in Leos Carax's Mauvais Sang. This lm was a critical and
commercial success, leading to Binoches second Csar
nomination. Mauvais Sang is an avant-garde thriller in
which she plays Anna the vastly younger lover of Marc
(Piccoli) who falls in love with Alex (Denis Lavant), a
young thief.[30] Binoche has stated that she, discovered
the camera, while shooting this lm.[31]

In August 1986, Binoche began lming Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Milan Kundera's novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, portraying the young and innocent Tereza.[32] Released in 1988, this was Binoches rst
English language role and was a worldwide success with
critics and audiences alike[33] Set against the USSR's invasion of Prague in 1968, the lm tells the story of the relationships a Czech surgeon, Tomas (Daniel Day-Lewis),
has with his wife Tereza and his lover Sabina (Lena Olin).
Binoche has stated that at the time her English was very
limited and that she relied on a French translation to fully
grasp her role.[34] After this success, Binoche decided
to return to France rather than pursue an international
career.[35] In 1988, she lmed the lead in Pierre Pradinas's Un tour de mange, a little-seen French lm opposite
Franois Cluzet.[36] She has stated that her attraction to
this lm was that it gave her the opportunity to work with
close friends and family.[12] Pradinas is the husband of
her sister Marion Stalens who was set photographer on the
lm and appeared in a cameo role.[12] In the summer of
1988, Binoche returned to the stage in an acclaimed proIt was to be later in 1985 that Binoche would fully emerge duction of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Rusas a leading actress with her role in Andr Tchin's sian director Andrei Konchalovsky at Thtre De L'odon
Rendez-vous. She was cast at short notice when Sandrine

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in Paris.[37]
Later that year she began work on Los Carax's Les
Amants du Pont-Neuf.[38] The lm was beset by problems and took three years to complete, requiring investment from three producers and funds from the
French government.[21] When nally released in 1991,
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf was a critical success. Binoche
won a European Film Award[39] as well as securing her
third Csar nomination for her performance. In the lm
Binoche portrays an artist who lives rough on the famous Parisian bridge where she meets another young vagrant (Denis Lavant). This iconic part of the city becomes the backdrop for a wildly passionate love story
and some of the most visually arresting images of the city
ever created.[40] The paintings featured in the lm were
Binoches own work.[21] She also designed the French
poster for the lm which features an ink drawing of the
eponymous lovers locked in embrace.[21] During a break
in lming in 1990, Binoche spent ve days shooting Mara
for Mike Figgis, based on Henry Miller's Quiet Days in
Clichy. This 30 minute lm was part of HBO's anthology series Women & Men 2.[41] The lm became somewhat contentious when, according to Mike Figgis, HBO
altered it once he had completed it.[42] The lm premiered
on HBO in the U.S. on 18 August 1991.[43]
At this point, Binoche seemed to be at a crossroads in her
career. She was recognized as one of the most signicant French actresses of her generation.[44] However, the
long production of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf had forced
her to turn down several signicant roles in international
productions including The Double Life of Vronique by
Krzysztof Kielowski, Cyrano de Bergerac by Jean-Paul
Rappeneau, Night and Day by Chantal Akerman and Beyond the Aegean an aborted project with Elia Kazan.[45]
Now Binoche chose to pursue an international career outside France.[21]

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In the 1990s Binoche was cast in a series of critically

and commercially successful international lms, winning
her praise and awards.[46] In this period her persona developed from that of a young gamine to a more melancholic, tragic presence. Critics suggested that many of her
roles were notable for her almost passive intensity in the
face of tragedy and despair.[36] In fact Binoche has nicknamed her characters from this period as her sorrowful sisters.[47] Following the long shoot of Les Amants
du Pont-Neuf, Binoche relocated to London for the 1992
productions of Emily Bront's Wuthering Heights and
Damage, both of which considerably enhanced her international reputation.[48] Yet, from a professional and personal point of view, both lms were signicant challenges
for Binoche; her casting opposite Ralph Fiennes's Heathcli in Wuthering Heights, instead of English actresses
Helena Bonham Carter[49] and Kate Beckinsale,[50] was
immediately contentious and drew derision from the

Juliette Binoche at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.

British press, unimpressed that a uniquely English role

had gone to a French actress.[51] The lm had its world
premiere at the 1992 Edinburgh International Film Festival. Reviews were poor, with Binoche being cynically
dubbed Cathy Clouseau and derided for her franglais
accent.[52] Both Binoche and director Peter Kosminsky
distanced themselves from the lm, with Binoche refusing to do any promotion for the lm or to redub it into
French.[53]
Damage, a UK and French co-production, is the story of
a British conservative minister played by Jeremy Irons
who embarks on a torrid aair with his sons ance
(Binoche). Based on the novel by Josephine Hart and directed by veteran French director Louis Malle, Damage
seemed to be the ideal international vehicle for Binoche;
however the production was wrought with diculties and
dogged by rumours of serious conict. In an on-set interview, Malle stated that it was the most dicult lm he
had ever made, while Binoche commented that the rst
day was one big argument.[54] Damage opened in the UK
late in 1992 and debuted early in 1993 on US screens.
Reviews were somewhat mixed.[55] For her performance,
Binoche received her fourth Csar nomination.
In 1993, she appeared in Krzysztof Kielowski's Three
Colors: Blue to much critical acclaim.[56] The rst lm
in a trilogy inspired by the ideals of the French republic and the colors of its ag, Three Colors: Blue is the
story of a young woman who loses her composer husband
and daughter in a car accident. Though devastated she

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learns to cope by rejecting her previous life in favour of shoot due to dierences with Berri regarding the authenconscious nothing"; rejecting all people, belongings and ticity of his script.[67] Binoche has described this event as
emotions.[57] Three Colors: Blue premiered at the 1993 being like an earthquake to her.[10]
Venice Film Festival, landing Binoche the Best Actress
Prize. She also won a Csar, and a nomination for the
Golden Globe. Binoche has said her inspirations for the
role were her friend and coach Vernice Klier who suffered a similar tragedy, and the book The Black Veil by
Anny Duperey which deals with the authors grief at losing her parents at a young age.[58] Binoche made cameo
appearances in the other two lms in Kielowskis trilogy,
Three Colors: White and Three Colors: Red. Around this
time, Steven Spielberg oered her roles in Jurassic Park
and Schindlers List. She turned down both parts.[59] After
the success of Three Colors: Blue, Binoche took a short
sabbatical during which she gave birth to her son Raphal
in September 1993.[60]
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 lm was particularly
signicant in France as it was at the time the most expensive lm in the history of French cinema.[61] The lm
was a box-oce success around the world and Binoche
was again nominated for a Csar for Best Actress. This
role, as a romantic heroine, was to color the direction
of many of her subsequent roles in the late 1990s.[62] In
1996, Binoche appeared in her rst comedic role since
My Brother-in-Law Killed My Sister a decade before; A
Couch in New York was directed by Chantal Akerman
and co-starred William Hurt. This screw-ball comedy
tells the story of a New York psychiatrist who swaps
homes with a Parisian dancer.[63] The lm was a critical and commercial failure.[64] Three Colors: Blue, The
Horseman on the Roof and A Couch in New York all gave Binoche at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Binoche the opportunity to work with prestigious directors she had turned down during the prolonged shoot of Next Juliette Binoche was reunited with director Andr
Les Amants du Pont-Neuf.[21]
Tchin for Alice et Martin (1998), the story of a relaHer next role, in The English Patient reinforced her po- tionship between an emotionally damaged Parisian musisition as an international movie star. The lm, based on cian and her younger lover who hides a dark family secret.
France, although it
the novel by Michael Ondaatje and directed by Anthony The lm failed to nd an audience in
[68]
[65]
was
critically
acclaimed
in
the
UK.
In February 1998
Minghella, was a worldwide hit. Produced by Saul ZaBinoche
made
her
London
stage
debut
in a new version
entz, producer of The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
Luigi
Pirandello's
Clothe
the
Naked
retitled
Naked and
of
the lm reunited Juliette Binoche with Ralph Fiennes,
adapted
by
Nicolas
Wright.
The
production,
directed
Heathcli to her Cathy four years previously. Binoche
[69][70]
by
Jonathan
Kent,
was
very
favorably
received.
has said that the shoot on location in Tuscany and at the
famed Cinecitt in Rome was among the happiest pro- Following this acclaimed performance, she returned to
fessional experiences of her career.[10] The lm, which French screens with Children of the Century (1999), a big
tells the story of a badly burned, mysterious man found budget romantic epic, in which she played 19th-century
in the wreckage of a plane during World War II, won nine French proto-feminist author George Sand. The lm
Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actress for depicted Sands aair with the poet and dandy Alfred
Juliette Binoche.[66] With this lm, she became the sec- de Musset played by Benoit Magimel. This lavish cosond French actress to win an Oscar, following Simone tume drama was lmed on location in Paris and Venice
by the renowned fashSignoret's win for Room at the Top in 1960. After this and featured couture costumes [71]
Christian
Lacroix.
The following year
ion
designer
international hit, Binoche returned to France and began
saw
Binoche
in
four
contrasting
roles,
each of which enwork opposite Daniel Auteuil on Claude Berri's Lucie
La
Veuve
de
Saint-Pierre
(2000)
hanced
her
reputation.
Aubrac, the true story of a French Resistance heroine.
Patrice
Leconte,
for
which
she
was
nominated
for a
by
Binoche was released from the lm six weeks into the
Csar for Best Actress, was a period drama which saw

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Binoche appear opposite Daniel Auteuil in the role of a

woman who attempts to save a condemned man from the
guillotine.[72] The lm won favourable reviews, particularly in the U.S.[73] where it was nominated for a Golden
Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.[74]
Next she appeared in Michael Haneke's Code Unknown,
a lm which was made following Binoches approach to
the Austrian director.[75] The lm premiered in competition at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.[76] This critically acclaimed role was a welcome change from playing
the romantic heroine in a series of costume dramas.[77]
Later that year, Binoche made her Broadway debut in an
adaptation of Harold Pinter's Betrayal for which she was
nominated for a Tony Award. Staged by the Roundabout
Theatre Company and directed by David Leveaux, the
production also featured Liev Schreiber and John Slattery.[78] Back on screen, Binoche was the heroine of the
Lasse Hallstrm lm Chocolat from the best selling novel
by Joanne Harris. For her role Binoche won a European
Film Audience Award for Best Actress and was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA.[79] Chocolat
is the story of a mysterious stranger who opens a chocolaterie in a conservative French village in 1959. The lm
was a worldwide hit.[80]
Between 1995 and 2000, Binoche was the advertising
face of the Lancme perfume Pome, her image adorning
print campaigns photographed by Richard Avedon[81] and
a television advertising campaign,[82] including an advert
directed by Anthony Minghella and scored by Gabriel
Yared.[83] 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 lm criticism magazine Sight and
Sound, Ginette Vincendeau pondered Binoches persona;
Vincendeau suggested that the xation 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.[36]

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Following the success of Chocolat, the early 2000s saw

Binoche internationally recognized as an A-list movie
star.[36] However, her persona seemed to be somewhat
xed following a series of period roles where she played
the always stoic heroine facing tragedy and desolation.[36]
Keen to try something new, Binoche returned to French
cinema in 2002 in an unlikely role; Jet Lag opposite
Jean Reno saw Binoche play a ditzy beautician.[84] The
lm, directed by Daniele Thompson, was a box-oce hit
in France and saw Binoche once again nominated for a
Csar for Best Actress.[85] The lm tells the story of a
couple who meet at an airport during a strike. Initially the
pair despises each other, but, over the course of one night,
they nd common ground and maybe even love. This
playful spirit continued when Binoche featured in a 2003

Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno at Cannes, 2002

Italian television commercial for the chocolates Ferrero

Rocher. The advertisement played upon her Chocolat
persona featuring Binoche handing out the chocolates to
people on the streets of Paris.[86]
In a more serious vein, Binoche travelled to South Africa
to make John Boorman's In My Country (2004) opposite Samuel L. Jackson. Based on the book Country of
My Skull by Antjie Krog, the lm examines The Truth
and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings following the abolition of Apartheid in the mid-1990s.[87] Although the lm premiered at the 2004 Berlin International
Film Festival, it received much criticism for the inclusion of a ctional romantic liaison and for its depiction of
black South Africans.[88] Despite the negative reception,
Binoche was extremely enthusiastic about the lm and her
connection with Boorman.[89][90] Her sister, Marion Stalens, also travelled to South Africa to shoot a documentary, La reconciliation?, which explores the TRC process
and follows Binoches progress as she acts in Boormans
lm.[22] Next, Binoche re-teamed with Michael Haneke
for Cach. The lm was an immediate success, winning best director for Haneke at the 2005 Cannes Film
Festival,[91] while Binoche was nominated for a European
Film Award for Best Actress for her role.[92] The lm
tells the story of a bourgeois Parisian couple, played by
Binoche and Daniel Auteuil, who begin to receive anonymous videotapes containing footage shot over long periods, surveying the outside of their home. Cach went on

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to feature in the number one position on the Top 10 of spite the fact that Binoche was praised for her perforthe 2000s list published by The Times at the end of the mance, the lm did not ring true for critics and failed
decade.[93]
to nd an audience.[105] In a review in Variety, Todd
Binoches next lm, Bee Season, based on the celebrated McCarthy writes that, Binoche, physically unchanged
[106]
novel by Myla Goldberg, cast her opposite Richard Gere. as ever, plays Amiras controlled anguish with skill.
The lm was not a success at the box oce taking less Breaking and Entering also featured Robin Wright, Vera
than $5 million worldwide.[94] For many critics the lm, Farmiga, Juliet Stevenson, Ra Gavron and Martin Freealthough intelligent, was distant and diuse.[95] Bee man.
Season depicts the emotional disintegration of a family just as their daughter begins to win national spelling
bees. Mary (2005) featured Binoche in a somewhat
unlikely collaboration with the controversial American
director Abel Ferrara for an investigation of modern
faith and Mary Magdalene's position within the Catholic
Church.[96] Featuring Forest Whittaker, Matthew Modine
and Marion Cotillard, Mary was a success, winning the
Grand Prix at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Despite
these accolades and favorable reviews, particularly from
the cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles,[97] Mary failed
to secure a distributor in key markets such as the US and
the UK[98]

Although Binoche began the decade on a professional

high with an Academy Award nomination for Chocolat,
she struggled at the beginning of the 2000s to secure roles
that did not conne her to the tragic, melancholic persona
developed in the 1990s.[107] Despite the huge success of
Cach, other high prole lms such as In My Country, Bee
Season and Breaking and Entering failed critically[108] and
commercially,[109] Binoche seemed to be at a crossroads
in her career.[110]

2.4 20072012

The Cannes Film Festival in 2006 saw Binoche feature

in the anthology lm Paris, je t'aime appearing in a section directed by the Japanese director Nobuhiro Suwa.
Suwas Place des Victoires is the story of a grief-stricken
mother who manages to have a nal brief moment with
her dead son. The segment also features Willem Dafoe
and Hippolyte Girardot. Paris, je t'aime was a popular success, taking over $17 million, at the world boxoce.[99] In September 2006, Binoche appeared at the
Venice Film Festival to launch A Few Days in September,
written and directed by Santiago Amigorena. Despite an
impressive cast including John Turturro, Nick Nolte and
up-coming French star Sara Forestier, the lm was a failure. A Few Days in September is a thriller set between 5
and 11 September 2001, in which Binoche plays a French
secret service agent, who may, or may not, have information relating to impending attacks on the U.S.[100] The
lm was the recipient of harsh criticism from the press for
its perceived trivialization of the events of 11 September
2001.[101] While promoting the lm in the UK, Binoche
told an interviewer she believed the CIA and other government agencies must have had foreknowledge of the 11
September attacks, as depicted in the lm.[102]
Next Binoche traveled to the 2006 Toronto Film Festival for the premiere of Breaking and Entering, her second lm with Anthony Minghella in the directors chair,
based on his rst original screenplay since his breakthrough lm Truly, Madly, Deeply (1991). In Breaking
and Entering, Binoche played a Bosnian refugee living in
London, while Jude Law co-starred as a well-to-do businessman drawn into her life via an act of deception. In
preparation for her role, Binoche travelled to Sarajevo
where she met women who had survived the war of the
1990s.[103] Lushly photographed by Benot Delhomme,
Breaking and Entering portrays intersecting lives amongst
the ux of urban renewal in inner-city London.[104] De-

Binoche at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival

2007 was the start of a particularly busy period for

Binoche, one that would see her take on diverse roles in a
series of critically acclaimed international movies giving
her lm career a new impetus, as she shed the restrictions that seemed to have stied her career in the early
part of the decade.[107] The Cannes Film Festival saw the
premiere of Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) by the Tai-

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wanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien. It was originally conceived as a short lm to form part of a 20th anniversary
tribute to the Muse D'Orsay, to be produced by Serge
Lemoine president of the museum. When that idea failed
to nd sucient funding, Hou developed it into a featurelength lm and secured the necessary nancing.[111] The
lm was well received by international critics and went on
to debut around the world early in 2008. Paying homage
to Albert Lamorisse's 1957 short The Red Balloon, Hous
lm tells the story of a womans eorts to juggle her responsibilities as a single mother with her commitment to
her career as a voice artist. Shot on location in Paris, the
lm was entirely improvised by the cast.[112] The lm was
number one on the inuential critic J. Hobermans Top
10 List for 2008 published in The Village Voice.[113]

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general release in the U.S. on 19 May 2009. Widely acclaimed, the lm was nominated for the Prix Louis Delluc in France and appeared on numerous U.S. Top 10
lists, including rst place on David Edelsteins Top 10
of 2009 list in New York Magazine, and J.R. Joness list
in the Chicago Reader.[122] Summer Hours also features
Charles Berling, Jrmie Renier and dith Scob.
In the autumn of 2008, Binoche starred in a theatrical
dance production titled in-i, co-created with renowned
choreographer Akram Khan. The show, a love story
told through dance and dialogue, featured stage design
by Anish Kapoor and music by Philip Sheppard. It premiered at the National Theatre in London before embarking on a world tour.[123] Writing in The Australian, John
McCallum wrote that, Binoche has radiant presence as
an actor, her dancing is relaxed and naturalistic, while
The Sunday Times in the UK commented that, Binoches
physical achievement is incredible: Khan is a master
mover. The production was part of a 'Binoche Season'
titled Ju'Bi'lations, also featuring a retrospective of her
lm work and an exhibition of her paintings, which were
also published in a bilingual book Portraits in Eyes.[124]
The book featured ink portraits of Binoche as each of
her characters and of each director she had worked with
up to that time. She also penned a few lines to each
director.[125]

Disengagement by Amos Gitai premiered out-ofcompetition at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. Costarring Liron Levo and Jeanne Moreau, Disengagement
is a political drama charting the story of a French
woman, of Dutch/Palestinian origin, who goes in search
of a daughter she abandoned 20 years previously on the
Gaza strip. She arrives in Gaza during the 2005 Israeli
disengagement.[114] The lm won the prestigious Premio
Roberto Rossellini[115] and was critically acclaimed,
particularly by the eminent Cahiers du Cinema.[116]
However the lm proved more controversial in Israel
where state television station Channel 1 withdrew In April 2006 and again in December 2007, Binoche travnancial support for the lm citing the left-wing nature elled to Tehran at the invitation of Abbas Kiarostami.[126]
of Gitais lms.[117]
While there in 2007, she shot a cameo appearance in his
In stark contrast, Peter Hedges co-wrote and directed the lm Shirin (2008) which he was shooting at the time.
Disney-produced Dan in Real Life, a romantic comedy Binoches visit proved controversial when two Iranian
featuring Binoche alongside Steve Carell. It was released MPs raised the matter in parliament, advising more cauin October 2007, becoming a popular commercial suc- tion be exercised in granting visas to foreign celebricess in the US, before debuting around the world in 2008. ties which might lead to cultural destruction.[127] In
The lm grossed over $65 million at the worldwide box- June 2009 Binoche began work on Certied Copy dioce.[118] Dan in Real Life is the story of a widowed rected by Kiarostami.[128] The lm was an Ocial Selecman (Carell) who meets, and instantly falls for, a woman tion in competition at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.[129]
(Binoche), only to discover she is the new girlfriend of his Binoche won the Best Actress Award at the festival for her
brother. The lm also features Dane Cook, Emily Blunt performance. The lm went on general release in France
on 19 May 2010 to very positive reviews.[130] Her win
and Diane Wiest[119]
Back in France, Binoche experienced popular and criti- at the 2010 Cannes Film festival makes Binoche the rst
cal success in Paris directed by Cdric Klapisch. Paris actress to win the European best actress triple crown":
is Klapischs personal ode to the French capital and fea- Best Actress at Venice for Three Colors: Blue, Best Actures an impressive ensemble of French talent, includ- tress at Berlin for The English Patient and Best Actress
ing Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini and Mlanie Laurent. at Cannes for Certied Copy. The September 2010 UK
Paris was one of the most successful French lms inter- release of the lm was overshadowed when French acnationally in recent years, having grossed over $22 mil- tor Grard Depardieu made disparaging comments about
lion at the world box oce.[120] Binoche and Klapisch had Binoche to the Austrian magazine Prol, Please can you
originally met on the set of Mauvais Sang in 1986, where explain to me what the mystery of Juliette Binoche is
meant to be?" he said. I would really like to know why
Klapisch was working as a set electrician.[121]
she has been so esteemed for so many years. She has
Also in France, Summer Hours (2008), directed by nothing absolutely nothing.[131] In response, while proOlivier Assayas, is the critically acclaimed story of three moting Certied Copy, Binoche spoke to movie magasiblings who struggle with the responsibility of disposing zine Empire saying, I don't know him. I understand you
of their late mothers valuable art collection. The lm don't have to like everyone and you can dislike someones
premiered in France in March 2008 and had its U.S. de- work. But I don't understand the violence [of his statebut at the 2008 New York Film Festival, before going on ments]... I do not understand why he is behaving like

8
this. It is his problem.[132] Certied Copy proved to be
controversial in Kiarostamis homeland when Iranian authorities announced on 27 May 2010 that the lm was
to be banned in Iran, apparently due to Binoches attire;
Deputy Culture Minister Javad Shamaqdari is quoted as
saying, If Juliette Binoche were better clad it could have
been screened but due to her attire there will not be a
general screening.[133]

CAREER

Autre by Frdrique Deghelt.[140] Released in France on

15 February 2012, the lm is the directorial debut of the
French actress Sylvie Testud and co-stars actor/director
Mathieu Kassovitz. Another Womans Life is the story of
Marie (Binoche) a young woman who meets and spends
the night with Paul (Kassovitz). When she wakes up, she
discovers that 15 years have passed. Withs no memory
of these years she learns she has acquired an impressive
career, a son and a marriage to Paul which seems headed
for divorce. The lm met with generally mixed reviews
in France.[141]
On 17 February 2011, Screendaily announced that
Binoche had been cast in David Cronenbergs lm
Cosmopolis with Robert Pattinson, Paul Giamatti,
Mathieu Amalric, and Samantha Morton.[142] Binoche
appeared in a supporting role as a New York art dealer,
Didi Fancher, who is having an aair with Pattinsons
Eric Packer. The lm, produced by Paulo Branco, began principal photography on 24 May 2011 and was released in 2012, following a competition slot at the 2012
Cannes Film Festival.[143] Cosmopolis received mixed reviews from critics.[144] August 2012 saw the French release of An Open Heart opposite Edgar Ramirez and directed by Marion Laine. Based on the novel Remonter
lOrnoque by Mathias nard, the lm is the story of the
obsessive relationship between two highly successful surgeons. The lm depicts the impact of an unexpected
pregnancy and alcoholism on their relationship.[145] The
second lm directed by Laine, An Open Heart met with
tepid reviews in France and poor box oce receipts.[146]

2.5 2013present
David Cronenberg, Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche at the
premiere of Cosmopolis at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

Following the success of Certied Copy, Binoche appeared in a brief supporting role in The Son of No One
for American writer and director Dito Montiel. The lm
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.[134] It was acquired by
Anchor Bay Entertainment for distribution in the US and
other key territories arriving in selected US cinemas on
4 November 2011.[135] As of December 2011, according
to lm review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, The Son of No
One is Juliette Binoches least critically successful lm,
with only 18% of critics giving it a positive review.[136]
In June 2010, Binoche started work on Elles for Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska. Elles, produced under the working title Sponsoring,[137][138] is an examination of teenage prostitution with Juliette Binoche playing
a journalist for ELLE. The lm was released in France
on 1 February 2012.[139] On 12 January 2011, Variety
announced that Juliette Binoche would star in Another
Womans Life loosely based on the novel La Vie d'une

Released at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival, Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel 1915 is a drama
recounting three days of the thirty years French artist
Camille Claudel (Binoche) spent in a mental asylum
though she had not been diagnosed with any malady. The
lm examines Claudels ght to maintain her sanity and
nd creative inspiration while awaiting a visit from her
brother, the poet Paul Claudel. The lm received excellent reviews with Binoche in particular gaining excellent
reviews for her performance.[147]
Following this Binoche has completed work on A Thousand Times Good Night for director Erik Poppe in which
she plays a war photographer, the romantic drama Words
and Pictures with Clive Owen from veteran director Fred
Schepisi. She co-starred in Gareth Edwards Godzilla,
which was theatrically released in May 2014. August
2013 saw Binoche reunite with Olivier Assayas for Clouds
of Sils Maria. The lm written especially for Binoche also
featured Kristen Stewart and Chlo Grace Moretz. The
lm had its debut at Cannes 2014.[148] Following this role
Binoche is slated to appear in Nobody Wants the Night
by Isabel Coixet which was due to begin shooting late in
2013.

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Charitable work

9
December 1999), whose father is actor Benot Magimel,
with whom Binoche starred in the 1999 lm Children of
the Century. Her sister, Marion Stalens, born 1960, is a
professional photographer with Corbis, as well as a director of documentary lms, including; La rconciliation?,
a documentary shot on the set of John Boormans lm
In My Country,[22] The Actress and the Dancer, exploring
the genesis of Binoches dance show in-i[153] and Juliette
Binoche - Sketches for a Portrait a documentary which follows Binoche as she paints the portraits that would later
appear in her book Portraits in Eyes.[154]
Her half-brother Camille Humeau (born 1978) is an acclaimed musician and has been part of the line-up of
Oncle Strongle,[155][156] before top-lining the group Artichaut Orkestra.[157] In 2007, he appeared in a stage production of Cabaret directed by Sam Mendes.[53] Stage director Pierre Pradinas is married to her sister Marion.[12]

3.1 Charitable work

Since 1992 Binoche is a patron of the French Cambodian
charity Enfants d'Asie (previously ASPECA). Through
this charity she is godmother to ve Cambodian orphans,
and has funded the construction of a childrens home in
Battambang.[158] Starting in 2000, Juliette Binoche has
been involved with the organization Reporters Without
Binoche promoting Clouds of Sils Maria at the 2014 Cannes Borders. In 2002, she presided over Photos of Stars
with Thierry Ardisson. Nearly 100 French stars were
Film Festival
given disposable cameras, which were then auctioned, the
buyer then having the exclusive photos taken by the star
In 2015, Binoche starred on stage in a new English lan- developed.[159]
guage translation of Antigone. Directed by Ivo van Hove,
the production had a world premier in Luxembourg at
the end of February. Then, it embarked an international 3.2 Political views and activism
tour to London, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Paris,
Recklinghausen and New York.[149]
I don't look back on the past because I like
to live in the present. I know this makes some
people think I probably never cared, but I need
my freedom and I like to keep moving. - Juliette Binoche[150]
Binoche narrated the new documentary lm titled Talking about Rose about the Chad soldier Rose Lokissim
who fought against Hissne Habr's dictatorship in the
1980s.[151]
In 2016 Binoche reunites with Bruno Dumont for a com- Juliette Binoche in one of the Very Large Telescope
edy lm Slack Bay.[152]
enclosures.[160]
In April 2002, Binoche and several other French stars
including Catherine Deneuve and Mathieu Kassovitz attended a protest picnic to object to the ring of
Pierre Lescure by the Vivendi UniverBinoche has two children: a son Raphal (born on 2 Canal+ chairman
[161]
company.
sal
September 1993), whose father is Andr Halle, a professional scuba diver, and a daughter Hana (born on 16 On 7 February 2006, Binoche attended a high prole

Personal life

10

demonstration organised by Reporters Without Borders

in support of Jill Carroll and two Iraqi journalists who
had been abducted in Baghdad.[162]
She supported Jos Bov in the 2007 French presidential
elections which were won by Nicolas Sarkozy.[163] She
disclosed on a number of occasions that she did not approve of the Sarkozy administration, stating that the president was creating a monarchic republic.[164][165]
Binoche and numerous other French personalities including Isabelle Adjani, Yvan Attal, Jane Birkin and
Josiane Balasko joined Rseau Education Sans Frontieres
(RESF) on 7 January 2010 with a symbolic "cake of solidarity to highlight the taxation and legitimacy issues being faced by undocumented workers in France.[166]
Binoche was a signatory to a June 2010 petition organized by Reporters Without Borders and Shirin Ebadi to
protest against the detention of numerous people, including members of the press, who were protesting the occasion of the rst anniversary of the disputed re-election of
Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.[167]

OTHER AWARDS

1992 European Film Award Best Actress Les

Amants du Pont-Neuf
1993 Berlin International Film Festival Berlinale
Camera[171]
1993 Venice Film Festival Best Actress Three
Colors: Blue
1996 National Board of Review Best Supporting
Actress The English Patient
1997 Berlin International Film Festival Best Actress The English Patient [172]
1997 European Film Award Best Actress The
English Patient
1997 Academy Award Best Supporting Actress
The English Patient

2010 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress CertiAt the 2010 Cannes Film Festival Binoche spoke out
ed Copy
against the detention of Iranian director Jafar Panahi, incarcerated in Teherans Evin Prison since 1 March 2010
2010 Kerry Film Festival Maureen O'Hara
without charge or conviction. At the press conference folAward[173]
lowing the press screening of Copie Conforme, Binoche
2010 Cairo International Film Festival Lifetime
was informed that Panahi had begun a hunger strike.[168]
achievement[174]
The following day Binoche attended a press conference
called especially to demand the release of Panahi. Also in
2013 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Best
attendance were Abbas Kiarostami, Mohsen MakhmalActress Camille Claudel 1915
baf, Gilles Jacob. Binoche read a letter which pointed
out that Panahis detention was unwarranted and intol 2014 Manaki Brothers Film Festival Special
erable. When Binoche was awarded the Best Actress
Golden Camera 300 for contribution in world the
award at the festival, brandishing his name on a placard,
Art of Cinema
she used her speech as an opportunity to raise Panahis
[169]
plight once again.
On 25 May it was announced that
2014 - Locarno International Film Festival - ExcelPanahi had been released on bail. It was generally agreed
lence Award Mot & Chandon
that the publicity Binoche and Kiarostami elicited for his
[168]
case was a strong factor in his release.
On 20 December 2010 Panahi, after being prosecuted for assembly
and colluding with the intention to commit crimes against 5.2 Nominations
the countrys national security and propaganda against the
Islamic Republic, was handed a six-year jail sentence
2001 Screen Actors Guild Award Best Actress
and a 20-year ban on making or directing any movies,
Chocolat
writing screenplays, giving any form of interview with
Iranian or foreign media as well as leaving the country.
2001 Academy Award for Best Actress in a LeadBinoche continues to lobby on his behalf.[170]
ing Role Chocolat

Filmography and awards

2001 Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding

Cast Chocolat
2005 European Film Award Best Actress; Cach

Other awards

5.1

Won

1986 Prix Romy Schneider

2005 London Critics Circle Film Awards Best

Actress Cach
2006 British Independent Film Award Best Actress Breaking & Entering

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External links
Juliette Binoche at the Internet Movie Database
Juliette Binoche at AllMovie
Juliette Binoche at lmsdefrance.com
Juliette Binoche Interview at AMCtv.com
Juliette Binoche at Juliette Binoche: The Art of Being

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