News: Juliet Binoche
November 10, 2006The Frenchwoman best known for her turns in 2000’s Chocolat and Krzysztof Kieslowski’s majestic early ’90s Three Colours series proves once again that she’s one of the most beautiful actresses currently working, despite now being in her 42nd year, in this week’s Breaking and Entering, making a convincing love interest for Jude Law despite being several years his senior. She is also still hard at work in movies on both sides of the Channel and both sides of the Atlantic, from Chinese director Hsiao-hsien Hou’s French language fantasy Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon) to the American Steve Carrell comedy Dan In Real Life.
Likely to be Binoche’s most interesting upcoming project, however, is the film adaptation of comic Steve Martin’s successful stage play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, due in 2008. Based around a meeting between Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in 1904 Paris, rumoured stars currently include not only Martin (who will also provide the screenplay), but also Kevin Kline, Jason Biggs, Ryan Phillippe and Elijah Wood. Should be interesting, at least - if only to see the ever-surprising Wood take on Einstein…
