French actress Juliette Binoche has been named President of the Jury for the 2025 edition of the Cannes Film Festival in May.
The honor, which was announced on Tuesday morning Paris time, will fall exactly 40 years after the Oscar-winning The English Patient star first touched down at the festival with André Téchiné’s Palme d’Or contender Rendez-vous in 1985.
Binoche follows in the footsteps of U.S. director Greta Gerwig whose jury feted Sean Baker’s Anora with the Palme d’Or last year.
“I’m looking forward to sharing these life experiences with the members of the Jury and the public. In 1985, I walked up the steps for the first time with the enthusiasm and uncertainty of a young actress; I never imagined I’d return 40 years later in the honorary role of President of the Jury. I appreciate the privilege, the responsibility and the absolute need for humility,” said Binoche.
The honor, which was announced on Tuesday morning Paris time, will fall exactly 40 years after the Oscar-winning The English Patient star first touched down at the festival with André Téchiné’s Palme d’Or contender Rendez-vous in 1985.
Binoche follows in the footsteps of U.S. director Greta Gerwig whose jury feted Sean Baker’s Anora with the Palme d’Or last year.
“I’m looking forward to sharing these life experiences with the members of the Jury and the public. In 1985, I walked up the steps for the first time with the enthusiasm and uncertainty of a young actress; I never imagined I’d return 40 years later in the honorary role of President of the Jury. I appreciate the privilege, the responsibility and the absolute need for humility,” said Binoche.
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Rendez-vous (1985) is the sixth film directed by André Téchiné, the first he wrote with Olivier Assayas, and the first time Téchiné cast Juliette Binoche. This director continued his trend of making films about failed romances, per Barocco and Hotel America, and expanded his style to create something similar to Andrzej Żuławski’s films. Téchiné’s film featured graphic sex-scenes with masochistic overtones and soft-core porn shows that are reminiscent to what Żuławski explored in That Most Important Thing: Love. Rendez-vous looks at unrequited love from the perspective of damaged individuals that have no idea what they want and abuse others in the process of trying to discover that for themselves.
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“How’s it feel to take that off every night and find there’s nothing underneath?” — Quentin
Rendez-vous (1985) is the sixth film directed by André Téchiné, the first he wrote with Olivier Assayas, and the first time Téchiné cast Juliette Binoche. This director continued his trend of making films about failed romances, per Barocco and Hotel America, and expanded his style to create something similar to Andrzej Żuławski’s films. Téchiné’s film featured graphic sex-scenes with masochistic overtones and soft-core porn shows that are reminiscent to what Żuławski explored in That Most Important Thing: Love. Rendez-vous looks at unrequited love from the perspective of damaged individuals that have no idea what they want and abuse others in the process of trying to discover that for themselves.
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