Rendez-vous
- 1985
- 1h 22m
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6.4/10
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Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.Dreaming of an actress future, a young girl arrives in Paris. Her personality awakens a glowing passion of several different men.
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- TriviaIn 2023, Juliette Binoche said she was shocked during the scene where Nina is sleeping and Quentin and Paulot, played by Lambert Wilson and Wadeck Stanczak, put their hands between her legs. "One of the actors (I don't know which one, and in a way I don't want to know), took the liberty of touching my sex to wake me up. It was on the initiative of the director or the actor, in any case I remember being shocked. It was my first big role, I didn't say anything at the time, I still think about it. I should have roared!", the actress regretted. In an interview in July 2024, director André Téchiné rejected Binoche's accusation. "Her nudity in the film, I was responsible for it, but at her side, with her consent and approval, not as the only master on board and far from the "marketing" effect of the producer. 'Rendez-Vous' was the story of a woman who wanted to make her body an artistic instrument, nudity was part of the subject...[...] But I can't think I hurt her, it's impossible... And there was no sexual relationship between us," he said.
- Crazy creditsJohn XII 24: "Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains but a grain of wheat; but if it dies, it produces much fruit."
- ConnectionsReferenced in Mardi cinéma: Episode dated 14 May 1985 (1985)
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Rendez-vous (1985) was co-written and directed by André Téchiné. It's a vehicle for the now-famous Juliette Binoche.
Juliette Binoche, at age 21, already radiated the star power that became apparent to everyone in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Unfortunately, her contributions to this film were pretty much limited to her luminous skin and her distinctive beauty. This distinctive beauty is fully and totally displayed. (Binoche is not shy.)
The film involves four men who swirl around Binoche like the proverbial moths around a flame. One is a wimp, one is a creep, and one carries a straight razor. (Don't ask). The fourth is Jean-Louis Trintignant. The other three were all young, and were probably happy to work with a well-known director like Téchiné. One can only guess why an established star like Trintignant accepted this role.
Binoche is lovely, especially when dressed in period costume as Shakespeare's Juliet. (She looks like Vivian Leigh in "Gone with the Wind.") However, she is miscast as the wide-eyed young ingénue from the provincial town of Toulouse. Binoche was born in Paris, and she just can't carry off a role in which she is supposed to have just arrived in town to "live her life." Another weak point is her reading of some of Juliet's lines at an casting audition. No actor could read lines that badly. (High school kids trying out for the senior play don't read lines that badly.)
The movie will work well on DVD, which is the way I saw it. If you love La Binoche, and you've seen every other film in which she's starred, I guess you'll have to see this one for the sake of completion. If you haven't seen all of her later films, rent one of those instead.
Juliette Binoche, at age 21, already radiated the star power that became apparent to everyone in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." Unfortunately, her contributions to this film were pretty much limited to her luminous skin and her distinctive beauty. This distinctive beauty is fully and totally displayed. (Binoche is not shy.)
The film involves four men who swirl around Binoche like the proverbial moths around a flame. One is a wimp, one is a creep, and one carries a straight razor. (Don't ask). The fourth is Jean-Louis Trintignant. The other three were all young, and were probably happy to work with a well-known director like Téchiné. One can only guess why an established star like Trintignant accepted this role.
Binoche is lovely, especially when dressed in period costume as Shakespeare's Juliet. (She looks like Vivian Leigh in "Gone with the Wind.") However, she is miscast as the wide-eyed young ingénue from the provincial town of Toulouse. Binoche was born in Paris, and she just can't carry off a role in which she is supposed to have just arrived in town to "live her life." Another weak point is her reading of some of Juliet's lines at an casting audition. No actor could read lines that badly. (High school kids trying out for the senior play don't read lines that badly.)
The movie will work well on DVD, which is the way I saw it. If you love La Binoche, and you've seen every other film in which she's starred, I guess you'll have to see this one for the sake of completion. If you haven't seen all of her later films, rent one of those instead.
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- André Téchiné's Rendez-Vous
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- Pont des Arts, Paris 1, Paris, France(Nina and Paulot walking to his apartment)
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- $1,059,334
- Runtime1 hour 22 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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