The star of “The Taste of Things” explains why working with her former romantic partner Benoît Magimel was freeing, and weighs in on an Oscar controversy.
From her role as Coco Chanel in a thrilling new series to her latest—rather complicated, très French—turn as an international cinema sensation, bringing charisma to complexity is what Juliette Binoche does best, onscreen and off.
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Stéphanie Branchu / IFC Films Twenty years ago, Harvey Weinstein would have turned The Taste of Things into the talk of the awards season and another Oscar night triumph for Miramax. With the disgraced mogul long gone, however, Trần Anh Hùng’s film will have to content itself with being one of last year’s standouts, as well as a must-see import when it finally receives a U.S. theatrical release this Friday, Feb. 9. Featuring a luminous Juliette Binoche and equally masterful Benoît Magimel as 188