Lovers on the Bridge: Citizens of Pont Neuf
Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant. Photo: Gaumont It’s the kind of troubled film project that generates not one but two different documentaries telling the story of how it was made;…
The Taste of Things
In 1889, Eugénie and Dodin Bouffant (Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel) reach culinary heights and work on their relationship while planning extraordinary dinners at a country estate. Inspired by a 1920s…
The English Patient: Memories of Love
Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas. Photo: Miramax Some people will always think of this film as the one that stole the Best Picture Oscar from Fargo. Fair enough, the…
Red: Listening and Judging
Samuel Le Bihan and Irène Jacob. Photo: Canal+ We already knew this would be Krzysztof Kieslowski’s last film, because he had said as much after its premiere. Two years later,…
White
When his French wife (Julie Delpy) wants a divorce because he can’t satisfy her, Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski) loses everything… but gets a new chance back in Poland. The second…
Blue
When her composer husband and their daughter are killed in a car crash, Julie de Courcy (Juliette Binoche) tries to isolate herself from her previous life… The first chapter of…
Godzilla
15 years after the death of his mother in a mysterious accident at a nuclear power plant in Japan, bomb technician Ford Brody (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is told by his father…
Caché: In Denial
Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche. Photo: Les Films du Losange When I started watching Caché, I was wary. I knew that director Michael Haneke had no qualms about torturing his…