Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche plays Anne in Michael Haneke's Code Unknown. Richard Falcon's review hands over a fact of origin: what set the film going was her own approach to Haneke. Falcon writes in the same piece that her performance, stripped of glamour and still luminous, contributes immeasurably to the film's success. Reviewing The Widow of Saint-Pierre, Michael Witt reports the director saying it was the chance of working with her and with one other performer that drew him into the project. Chris Darke writes that she develops Alice in Alice et Martin, from 1998, with a loaded delicacy, and notes that Andre Techine had directed her once before, early on. The Berlinale cited her twice, the Berlinale Camera in 1993 and the Silver Bear for actress in 1997 for her part in The English Patient. Three Colors: Blue won her the best actress Cesar in 1994.