Binoche Has Gone Full Zhivago (65th Berlinale)
Friday, January 9, 2015 at 2:17PM Berlinale cometh.
Not until February but Juliette Binoche is starting early since she's arriving by sled. But seriously that's the first image from the Opening Night film Isabel Croixet's Nobody Wants the Night. The film co-stars Oscar nominee Rinko Kikuchi (Babel) and Gabriel Byrne (as explorer Robert Peary) and takes place in 1908 in the Arctic and Greenland. My Binoche comes in waves and recedes with the tide and such but it's big and full right now after her wonderful work in Clouds of Sils Maria which will open in the US eventually. Promises promises. Binoche is always so wonderful.
Competition films this year include: Andrew Haigh's 45 Years (his first since Weekend!), Andrea Dresen's As We Were Dreaming, Kenneth Branagh's Cinderella, Peter Greenaway's Eisenstein in Guanajuato, Jayro Bustamante's Ixcanul Volcano, Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups, and Alexey German''s Under Electric Clouds.
50 Shades of Grey will also premiere at the festival. But frankly, it just doesn't seem kinky enough for Berlin. The city, not the festival.
I can never go to the Berlin International Film Festival because it hits just days after Sundance and concludes just a couple weeks before the Oscar. *sniffle*
Reader Comments (6)
WOW Knight of Cups, I can't wait to see it. Still waiting on that previously reported six-hour cut of The Tree of Life though.
That image from Nobody Wants the Night is beautiful.
Love Binoche. So, so much. This film sounds terrific; can't wait!
I just watch Clouds of Sils Maria last night,
and damn, even though it satisfies my actressexual need, but that end of act 2 is so ambiguous, and it wasn't even solved in the epilogue!
Did A Thousand Times Good Night get a US release yet? Juliette is so good in that too. That image basically crystallises why I love her: such a diva, yet you know there's acres of sorrow waiting to be unveiled beneath it.
Are you sure about Gabriel Byrne playing Robert Peary in this film? IMDB lists him as playing a character named Bram Trevor. TwitchFilm says this, too.
So looking forward to seeing Binoche and Byrne on screen together in this new film. They also work together in The 33, which is currently in post-production. Yay!