Hephzibah Anderson talks to Juliette Binoche

Her eyes are gazing off into the distance, anguished and fretful despite the resignation that clings to her mouth and the unyielding angularity of those oddly expressive cheekbones. The ears are unflatteringly jug-like but the forehead radiates calm and the chin - the chin is tilted just so, suggesting steely defiance. Juliette Binoche's 25-year-long career has cast her variously as gamine seductress and dispossessed single mum. She has appeared as a beautician, an actress obsessed with Mary Magdalene and avant-garde novelist George Sand. She weathered her looks to play the down-and-out, artistic heroine of Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, she learnt to make chocolate for the film adaptation of Joanne Harris's sticky-sweet bestseller and she teased the camera with smiles and smouldering looks to advertise Lancôme scent. Yet this is... [read full story]