Entrevista à Film Weekly de Binoche

Film Weekly meets Juliette Binoche

This
week I meet the French superstar and the footballers behind documentary
In the Hands of the Gods, about keepy-uppy and Maradona.

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Earnest... Juliette Binoche. Photograph: Chitoze Suzuki/AP

Juliette Binoche
is a remarkable actress. From her early career, she's managed to
beguile French audiences and international ones, working with some fine
directors, from Kieslowski and Techine to Michael Haneke and still managing to win Oscars and keep her dignity in fluff such as Chocolat.

Yet
she's not really a star. As I discover in our interview, Binoche is a
real actress, floaty, earnest about her craft and her on-screen image.
Her eyes are coal black, and they can shoot anger or mischief. Her
career, of late, has taken a political turn and she's becoming
emblematic of a troubled world - her very casting seems to suggest
turbulence and mystery. I love her in Hidden, when she isn't required
to do very much - it's her stillness and pain that impresses me
immensely. What's your favourite Binoche film or moment?

Film
Weekly likes to mix it up. From Binoche we go to football and five boys
who travel from London via New York down to Argentina to meet their
hero Diego Maradona. It's a footy doc called In The Hands of the Gods,
and the lads raise their money to get there by putting on street shows
of keepy-uppy, or freestyle, as I should properly call it.

I
liked this original-feeling doc - the boys are a likeable bunch (after
a while) and there's a dreamy quality to it, as one of its directors
Ben Turner tells me. The boys are there too, reliving their premiere in
Leicester Square.

Indeed the whole show comes from the Odeon Leicester Square,
where I'm attending a book launch for photographer Harry Myers' new
collection, Pictures and Premieres, a tome chronicling 40 years of
royal film performances and Bond premieres, and we were surrounded by
images of Peter Sellers, Roger Moore, the Queen Mum and Sophia Loren as
we put the show together.

So in the spirit of old-school glamour, enjoy Film Weekly and let us know your favourite Binoche moment.

Happy viewing Jason

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