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Berlin Interview: Juliette Binoche On 'Camille Claudel' & Working With Haneke, Minghella, Carax & Kiarostami

  • By Jessica Kiang
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  • February 20, 2013 4:47 PM
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Like most of director Bruno Dumont’s films, “Camille Claudel 1915” has proven divisive (you can read our take here), but one thing that critics on both sides of the fence are in unanimous agreement about is the quality of the central performance from Juliette Binoche. Economically contained and internalised, even when her Claudel is displaying some rare histrionics, Binoche invests the role with oceanic depths and undercurrents of conflicting emotion in a turn that in some ways can almost be seen as the stripped-away template for the kind of melancholic, tragic, tortured heroine with which she has made her name.
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More: Juliette Binoche, Bruno Dumont, Camille Claudel 1915, Berlin International Film Festival, Interview

Bruno Dumont & Juliette Binoche Team For 'La Creatrice' Based On The Life Of Camille Claudel

  • By Christopher Bell
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  • November 26, 2011 11:27 AM
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Well this is somewhat of a surprise. Largely known as a filmmaker that specializes in employing amateur actors, it appears that the seventh film by Bruno Dumont will be led by none other than cinephile sweetheart Juliette Binoche. Considering the "Certified Copy" actress' determination to work with every auteur out there it seems like a logical next step for her, but for the French philosophy-professor-turned-movie-director it's some new ground. Maybe it's training for that eventual project with Tom Cruise (note: never gonna happen).
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More: Bruno Dumont, Juliette Binoche, La Creatrice

Cannes Review: Bruno Dumont's 'Hors Satan' Is Devilishly Dull

  • By Kevin Jagernauth
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  • May 16, 2011 6:25 AM
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  • 11 Comments
Two-time Cannes Jury Prize winner Bruno Dumont ("Flanders," "L'humanité") returned to Cannes today with his latest head scratcher, "Hors Satan." If Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" was a bold exploration into human nature and the search in the universe for God, "Hors Satan" is the dumb, clumsy cousin to that film. Of course, interpretation is everything, but reading between the long static shots, minimal dialogue and brief bursts of "action," Dumont seems to posit that sometimes evil/violence is a necessary corrective in a world where good and evil unfold at will, without anyone holding the scales that keep them balanced.
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More: Foreign Films, Review, Foreign Directors, Hors Satan, Bruno Dumont

Watch: Clips From Bruno Dumont's 'Hors Satan' & Peter Chan's Cannes Midnight Movie 'Wu Xia'

  • By Christopher Bell
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  • May 11, 2011 2:02 AM
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More peeks at Cannes Film Festival entries as the glorious cinephile wet dream-come-true nears its latest iteration.
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More: Foreign Directors, Bruno Dumont, Peter Chan

18 Foreign Films We're Looking Forward To In 2011

  • By Christopher Bell
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  • January 10, 2011 5:49 AM
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  • 21 Comments
Alright, we've already done three Most Anticipated pieces, two Escapist and Popcorn fare pieces and here's more. Yes, it doesn't end, here's more for perhaps what you might call the more discerning reader.
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More: Feature, Foreign Directors, Michael Haneke, Bruno Dumont, Ulrich Seidl

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