New President of the European Film Academy Juliette Binoche: 'Don't go see just any film!'

It’s rare to meet a movie star who’s done it all.

Juliette Binoche has close to 100 acting credits to her name, acting for the likes of Jean-Luc Godard (Hail Mary), Krzysztof Kieślowski (the Three Colors trilogy), Michael Haneke (Code Unknown, Caché), Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Breaking and Entering), Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria, Non-Fiction) and Claire Denis (High Life, Both Sides of the Blade) - to name but a few.

She’s been Mary Magdalene (Mary), a vagrant lover (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf), a limo vixen (Cosmopolis), a sculptor (Camille Claudel 1915), a nuclear regulations consultant running away from a pissed off kaiju (Godzilla), an endlessly quotable bourgeois on the verge of a nervous breakdown (Slack Bay), a weaponised AI designer (Ghost in the Shell) and Coco Chanel (Apple TV+'s The New Look).

It’s even rarer to meet an actress who has won it all.

An Oscar (The English Patient), a César (Three Colors: Blue), three European Film Awards (Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, The English Patient, Chocolat)...

She’s also the first actress to have ever completed “Europe’s Triple Crown”, winning a Golden Bear in Berlin (The English Patient), a Palme d’Or in Cannes (Certified Copy) and a Volpi Cup in Venice (Three Colors: Blue).

It's one hell of a resumé. And quite how Caché and one of the most hunger-inducing films ever - last year’s The Taste of Things - didn’t add further trophies to her awards cabinet remains a mystery.

So, meeting Juliette Binoche is a daunting affair. Especially when the wait in the hotel room feels endless and you’ve only got 10 minutes to ask as many questions as humanly possible.  

However, as bewitching as she is on screen, Binoche puts you at ease straight away, as she couldn’t be more