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Tag Archives: Juliette Binoche
Wuthering Heights (1992) Peter Kosminsky, Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer
Heathcliff is Cathy Earnshaw’s foster brother; more than that, he is her other half. Read More »
Once Around the Park AKA Un tour de manège (1989) Pierre Pradinas, Juliette Binoche, François Cluzet, Thierry Gimenez
Al and Elsa have been a couple for some time, but the chances that their relationship will be long-lived are few. Read More »
Damage (1992) Louis Malle, Jeremy Irons, Juliette Binoche, Miranda Richardson
A member of Parliament (Irons) falls passionately in love with his son’s fiancée. Read More »
The Horseman on the Roof AKA Le hussard sur le toit (1995) Jean-Paul Rappeneau, Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche, Pierre Arditi
In 1832, cholera ravages Provence (South of France). After several misadventures, Angelo Read More »
The Lovers on the Bridge AKA Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991) Leos Carax, Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Daniel Buain
Set against Paris’ oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, while it was closed for repairs, this film is a love story between two young vagrants Read More »
In My Country AKA Country Of My Skull (2004) John Boorman, Juliette Binoche, Samuel L. Jackson, Brendan Gleeson
Langston Whitfield is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa Read More »
Summer Hours (2008) Olivier Assayas, Juliette Binoche, Charles Berling, Jérémie Renier
In a small town, Hélène is a family matriarch who has devoted her life to preserving the legacy of her artist uncle. Read More »
Le voyage du ballon rouge / Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) Hsiao-Hsien Hou, Juliette Binoche, Hippolyte Girardot, Simon Iteanu, Drama, Family
In Paris, Chinese cinema student Song Fang is hired to work as the nanny of Simon by his divorced mother Suzanne, who works voicing marionettes in a theater. Read More »
Un divan à New York / A Couch in New York (1996) Chantal Akerman, Juliette Binoche, William Hurt, Stephanie Buttle, Comedy, Romance
Dr. Henry Harriston is a successful psychoanalyst in New York City. When he is near a nervous breakdown, he arranges to change his flat with Beatrice Saulnier from France for a while. Read More »
Copie conforme / Certified Copy (2010) Abbas Kiarostami, Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière, Drama
James Miller has just written a book on the value of a copy versus the original work of art. Read More »
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) Philip Kaufman, Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Drama, Romance
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the events of the Prague Spring (1968), until the Soviet tanks crush the non-violent rebels; their illusions are shattered and their lives change forever.
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Rendez-vous (1985) André Téchiné, Lambert Wilson, Juliette Binoche, Wadeck Stanczak, Drama, Romance
A woman and three men. Nina, who’s come to Paris to act and sleeps with any man at hand, meets Paulot, a young estate agent; he’s smitten. She also meets Paulot’s flatmate Quentin, a compulsive who stalks her. To Paulot’s jealous dismay, she’s willing to sleep with Quentin, and wants Paulot’s friendship. After a desperate act by Quentin, Nina and Paulot share a flat, but she still won’t take him as a lover; instead, her energy goes into a production of “Romeo and Juliet” directed by a detached, intense man who becomes her father figure. Quentin’s ghost taunts her, Paulot wants to end all contact, and the director plans to return to London. The art of the theater may be her only refuge.
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