Rendez-vous

Director: André Téchiné

1985 / 82min / DCP

Binoche fairly exploded onto the French film scene playing a tempestuous, wildly promiscuous, and terribly vulnerable aspiring actress freshly arrived in Paris from Toulouse in this classic of amour fou co-written by a young Olivier Assayas, which earned Téchiné Best Director honors at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival and Binoche a César Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Conducting simultaneous liaisons with an uptight real estate agent, Paulot (Wadeck Stanczak), and his emotionally unstable roommate who makes ends meet by performing in Pigalle sex shows, Quentin (Lambert Wilson), Binoche’s Nina struggles through self-doubt and blindsiding tragedy to prepare for the performance that might very well make her name, a production of Romeo and Juliet staged by renowned theater director Jean-Louis Trintignant.

Distributor: Janus Films

Part of Juliette Binoche: Emotion in Motion